(This is the legacy documentation for stable SDL2, the current stable version; SDL3 is the current development version.)

SDL_HasEvent

Check for the existence of a certain event type in the event queue.

Header File

Defined in SDL_events.h

Syntax

SDL_bool SDL_HasEvent(Uint32 type);

Function Parameters

type the type of event to be queried; see SDL_EventType for details

Return Value

Returns SDL_TRUE if events matching type are present, or SDL_FALSE if events matching type are not present.

Remarks

If you need to check for a range of event types, use SDL_HasEvents() instead.

Version

This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.

See Also

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIFunction, CategoryEvents