InputProcess Type Enum work around

[peewee_RotA]

The InputProcess event does not have information about the e.Type variable. So here's what I found out to help anyone else in the future.

The EventHandler override for InputProcess takes in an InputEvent. This has a property named "type" which is of type EGenericEvent

There is no documentation on EGenericEvent, so diving into the code, it is an enum defined inside of the InputEvent struct.

It appears that the child definitions of this struct are not accessible outside of this file, so you cannot get to the Enum directly. However enums convert natively to int so you can access it by number. So here is a guide to the input types if you ever need to check them.

From https://github.com/ZDoom/gzdoom/blob/ca ... nts.zs#L85

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    enum EGenericEvent
    {
        Type_None,          	0
        Type_KeyDown,		1
        Type_KeyUp,		2
        Type_Mouse,		3
        Type_GUI, 		4  (unused, kept for completeness)
        Type_DeviceChange	5
    }

If you're doing investigation, you can't print e.Type directly, but you can string format them into numbers like so:

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        console.printf(String.Format("type %d", e.Type));

Edit: Here's a set of const you can copy if you want them handy

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    const EGenericEvent_Type_None = 0;
    const EGenericEvent_Type_KeyDown = 1;
    const EGenericEvent_Type_KeyUp = 2;
    const EGenericEvent_Type_Mouse = 3;
    const EGenericEvent_Type_GUI = 4;
    const EGenericEvent_Type_DeviceChange = 5;

[peewee_RotA]

I got curious and checked out UiProcess. It has a similar enum named EGUIEvent, but different enough to change how it works.

Here are the values:

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    enum EGUIEvent
    {
        Type_None,					0
        Type_KeyDown,					1
        Type_KeyRepeat,					2
        Type_KeyUp,					3
        Type_Char,					4
        Type_FirstMouseEvent, // ? 			5
            Type_MouseMove,				6
            Type_LButtonDown,				7	
            Type_LButtonUp,				8
            Type_LButtonClick,				9
            Type_MButtonDown,				10
            Type_MButtonUp,				11
            Type_MButtonClick,				12
            Type_RButtonDown,				13
            Type_RButtonUp,				14
            Type_RButtonClick,				15
            Type_WheelUp,				16
            Type_WheelDown,				17
            Type_WheelRight, // ???			18
            Type_WheelLeft, // ???			19
            Type_BackButtonDown, // ???			20
            Type_BackButtonUp, // ???			21
            Type_FwdButtonDown, // ???			22
            Type_FwdButtonUp, // ???			23
        Type_LastMouseEvent				24
    }

I do want to note that these are by far the most appropriate code comments I have ever seen. LOL

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           Type_WheelRight, // ???	
           Type_WheelLeft, // ???

[phantombeta]

Don't copy the enums. The actual enums can be used just fine like so:
InputEvent.Type_KeyDown
UiEvent.Type_LButtonDown

[peewee_RotA]

I'll give that a shot.

I tried every version of those enums that I could find in the sourcecode with every combination of qualified classnames I could think of and all of them threw errors.

If there is an official list somewhere that is accessible it would be really cool to have it documented.