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SDL_TextEditingExtEvent

Extended keyboard text editing event structure (event.editExt.*) when text would be truncated if stored in the text buffer SDL_TextEditingEvent

Header File

Defined in SDL_events.h

Syntax

typedef struct SDL_TextEditingExtEvent
{
    Uint32 type;                                /**< SDL_TEXTEDITING_EXT */
    Uint32 timestamp;                           /**< In milliseconds, populated using SDL_GetTicks() */
    Uint32 windowID;                            /**< The window with keyboard focus, if any */
    char* text;                                 /**< The editing text, which should be freed with SDL_free(), and will not be NULL */
    Sint32 start;                               /**< The start cursor of selected editing text */
    Sint32 length;                              /**< The length of selected editing text */
} SDL_TextEditingExtEvent;

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIStruct, CategoryEvents