org.gnome.gdk
Class EventButton

Object
  org.freedesktop.bindings.Pointer
      org.gnome.glib.Boxed
          org.gnome.gdk.Event
              org.gnome.gdk.EventButton

public final class EventButton
extends Event

Event data describing a button on a pointing device that was pressed or released. Notably, you can find out which button on the device was clicked with getButton(), and whether any modifier keys were being held down by the user with getState().

Since:

4.0.6

Author:

Andrew Cowie, Srichand Pendyala

Method Summary

MouseButton	getButton() Which button on the pointing device was pressed?
ModifierType	getState() Get the state of the modifier keys.
double	getX() Get the horizontal location that this Event occured at, relative to the [org.gnome.gdk] Window.
double	getY() Get the vertical location that this Event occured at, relative to the [org.gnome.gdk] Window.

Methods inherited from class org.gnome.gdk.Event

getType, getWindow

Methods inherited from class org.freedesktop.bindings.Pointer

toString

Methods inherited from class Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getButton

public MouseButton getButton()

Which button on the pointing device was pressed?

Since:

4.0.6

getState

public ModifierType getState()

Get the state of the modifier keys. This will be NONE if no modifiers are being held down. See EventKey's getState() and ModifierType for usage details.

Since:

4.0.6

getX

public double getX()

Get the horizontal location that this Event occured at, relative to the [org.gnome.gdk] Window. In most cases you will get an integral return; in any case, most usages of this return value will want a whole number of pixels, so cast to int as necessary.

Since:

4.0.9

getY

public double getY()

Get the vertical location that this Event occured at, relative to the [org.gnome.gdk] Window.

Since:

4.0.9