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SDL_TextEditingEvent

Keyboard text editing event structure (event.edit.*)

Header File

Defined in <SDL3/SDL_events.h>

Syntax

typedef struct SDL_TextEditingEvent
{
    SDL_EventType type; /**< SDL_EVENT_TEXT_EDITING */
    Uint32 reserved;
    Uint64 timestamp;   /**< In nanoseconds, populated using SDL_GetTicksNS() */
    SDL_WindowID windowID; /**< The window with keyboard focus, if any */
    char *text;         /**< The editing text */
    Sint32 start;       /**< The start cursor of selected editing text */
    Sint32 length;      /**< The length of selected editing text */
} SDL_TextEditingEvent;

Remarks

The text is owned by SDL and should be copied if the application wants to hold onto it beyond the scope of handling this event.

Version

This struct is available since SDL 3.0.0.

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIStruct, CategoryEvents