Cocoa in a Nutshell

Name

NSEvent — Mac OS X 10.0

Synopsis

This class encapsulates the data related to all events in a Cocoa application. NSEvent objects are dispatched by NSApplication to the appropriate receiver using the method sendEvent:. Both key and mouse events are represented by NSEvent. All classes that wish to respond to events must inherit from NSResponder.

@interface NSEvent : NSObject <NSCoding, NSCopying>

// Class Methods

+ (NSEvent *)enterExitEventWithType:(NSEventType)type location:(NSPoint)location modifierFlags:(unsigned int)flags timestamp:(NSTimeInterval)time windowNumber:(int)wNum context:(NSGraphicsContext*)context eventNumber:(int)eNum trackingNumber:(int)tNum userData:(void *)data;

+ (NSEvent *)keyEventWithType:(NSEventType)type location:(NSPoint)location modifierFlags:(unsigned int)flags timestamp:(NSTimeInterval)time windowNumber:(int)wNum context:(NSGraphicsContext*)context characters:(NSString *)keys charactersIgnoringModifiers:(NSString *)ukeys

+ (NSEvent *)mouseEventWithType:(NSEventType)type location:(NSPoint)location modifierFlags:(unsigned int)flags timestamp:(NSTimeInterval)time windowNumber:(int)wNum context:(NSGraphicsContext*)context eventNumber:(int)eNum clickCount:(int)cNum pressure:(float)pressure;

+ (NSPoint)mouseLocation;

+ (NSEvent *)otherEventWithType:(NSEventType)type location:(NSPoint)location modifierFlags:(unsigned int)flags timestamp:(NSTimeInterval) ...