Chapter 8. Events

Table of Contents
Introduction
SDL Event Structures.
Event Functions.

Introduction

Event handling allows your application to receive input from the user. Event handling is initalised (along with video) with a call to:

SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
Interally, SDL stores all the events waiting to be handled in an event queue. Using functions like SDL_PollEvent and SDL_PeepEvents you can observe and handle waiting input events.

The key to event handling in SDL is the SDL_Event union. The event queue itself is composed of a series of SDL_Event unions, one for each waiting event. SDL_Event unions are read from the queue with the SDL_PollEvent function and it is then up to the application to process the information stored with them.