SDL_TextInputEvent(3type)

SDL_TextInputEvent3type

Keyboard text input event structure (event.text.*)

Usage

#include "SDL3/SDL.h"

typedef struct SDL_TextInputEvent { SDL_EventType type; /**< SDL_EVENT_TEXT_INPUT */ Uint32 reserved; Uint64 timestamp; /**< In nanoseconds, populated using SDL_GetTicksNS() */ SDL_WindowID windowID; /**< The window with keyboard focus, if any */ const char *text; /**< The input text, UTF-8 encoded */ } SDL_TextInputEvent;

Header file

Defined in SDL3/SDL_events.h

Overview

This event will never be delivered unless text input is enabled by calling

SDL_StartTextInput (). Text input is disabled by default!

Availability

This struct is available since SDL 3.2.0.

From libsdl3-doc 3.2.10+ds-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.