*
**/
void registerGlobalEventListener (in EventListener listener,
- in string eventName);
+ in string eventName);
/**
* deregisterGlobalEventListener:
**/
DeviceEventController getDeviceEventController ();
+ /**
+ * unImplemented:
+ *
+ * placeholders for future expansion.
+ */
+ void unImplemented ();
+ void unImplemented2 ();
};
enum KeyEventType {
KEY_PRESS,
KEY_RELEASE,
KEY_PRESSRELEASE,
- KEY_SYM
+ KEY_SYM,
+ KEY_STRING
};
enum ModifierType {
MODIFIER_NUMLOCK
};
+ struct EventListenerMode {
+ boolean synchronous;
+ boolean preemptive;
+ boolean global;
+ };
+
typedef unsigned long ControllerEventMask;
struct DeviceEvent {
unsigned short modifiers;
unsigned long timestamp;
string event_string;
+ boolean is_text;
};
typedef sequence< long > KeySet;
in KeySet keys,
in ControllerEventMask mask,
in KeyEventTypeSeq type,
- in boolean is_synchronous);
+ in EventListenerMode mode);
/**
* deregisterKeystrokeListener:
* @keys: a @KeySet indicating which keys to intercept, or KEYSET_ALL_KEYS.
* @mask: a @ControllerEventMask filtering the intercepted key events.
* @type: an @EventType mask that may created by ORing event types together.
- * @is_synchronous: a @boolean indicating whether the listener should
- * receive the events synchronously, potentially consuming them,
- * or just be notified asynchronously of those events that have
- * been generated.
+ *
* Returns: void
*
* De-register a previously registered keyboard eventlistener.
void deregisterKeystrokeListener (in DeviceEventListener listener,
in KeySet keys,
in ControllerEventMask mask,
- in KeyEventTypeSeq type,
- in boolean is_synchronous);
+ in KeyEventTypeSeq type);
boolean notifyListenersSync (in DeviceEvent event);
oneway void notifyListenersAsync (in DeviceEvent event);
/**
- * generateKeyEvent:
+ * generateKeyboardEvent:
* @keycode: a long integer indicating the keycode of
* the keypress to be synthesized.
+ * @keystring: an optional UTF-8 string indicating a complex
+ * keyboard input event.
+ * @type: a #KeySynthType indicating the type of event(s) to be
+ * synthesized: a key press, release, press-release pair,
+ * or a complex input string (for instance from an
+ * internationalized or complex text input method, or
+ * a composed character).
*
- * Note that this long may be truncated before being
+ * Note that @keycode may be truncated before being
* processed, as keycode length may be platform-dependent
* and keycode ranges are generally much smaller than
* CORBA_long.
+ * One or the other of @keycode or @keystring are generally NULL,
+ * (but not both), depending on the value of @type.
*
* Returns: void
*
- * Synthesize a keypress event.
+ * Synthesize a keyboard event.
*
**/
- void generateKeyEvent (in long keycode, in KeySynthType type);
+ void generateKeyboardEvent (in long keycode,
+ in string keystring,
+ in KeySynthType type);
/**
* generateMouseEvent:
*
**/
void generateMouseEvent (in long x, in long y, in string eventName);
+
+ /**
+ * unImplemented:
+ *
+ * placeholders for future expansion.
+ */
+ void unImplemented ();
+ void unImplemented2 ();
};
};