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Diffstat (limited to 'devel.but')
| -rw-r--r-- | devel.but | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -3191,8 +3191,9 @@ The front end calls this function to report a mouse or keyboard event. The parameters \c{x} and \c{y} are identical to the ones passed to the back end function \cw{interpret_move()} (\k{backend-interpret-move}). -\c{button} is \e{almost} identical to the parameter passed to -\cw{interpret_move()}. However, some additional special button values +\c{button} is similar to the parameter passed to +\cw{interpret_move()}. However, the midend is more relaxed about +values passed to in, and some additional special button values are defined for the front end to pass to the midend (see below). Also, the front end is \e{not} required to provide guarantees about @@ -3266,6 +3267,11 @@ items the same, by translating each of them into a button code passed to the midend, and handle quitting by noticing the \c{false} return value from \cw{midend_process_key()}.) +The midend tolerates any modifier being set on any key and removes +them as necessary before passing the key on to the backend. It will +also handle translating printable characters combined with +\cw{MOD_CTRL} into control characters. + \H{midend-request-keys} \cw{midend_request_keys()} \c key_label *midend_request_keys(midend *me, int *nkeys); |