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Overview

An event which indicates that a keystroke occurred in a Node.

This low-level event is generated by a Node object when a key is pressed, released, or typed. Depends on the type of the event it is passed to Node#onKeyPressed, Node#onKeyTyped or Node#onKeyReleased function.

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Attribute Summary

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nodeNode

The Node that originated the event.

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The Node that originated the event.

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Protected

Inherited Attributes

Function Summary

public static createKeyEvent(node: Node, awtKeyEvent: java.awt.event.KeyEvent) : KeyEvent

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Parameters
node
awtKeyEvent
Returns
KeyEvent
public getKeyChar() : java.lang.String

Returns the character associated with the key in this event.

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Returns the character associated with the key in this event. For example, the key typed event for shift + "a" returns the value for "A".

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String

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public getKeyCode() : Integer

Returns the integer keyCode associated with the key in this event.

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Returns the integer keyCode associated with the key in this event.

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Integer

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public getKeyText() : java.lang.String

Returns a String describing the keyCode, such as "HOME", "F1" or "A" for key pressed and key released events.

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Returns a String describing the keyCode, such as "HOME", "F1" or "A" for key pressed and key released events. For key typed events returns null

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String

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public isAltDown() : Boolean

Returns whether or not the Alt modifier is down on this event.

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Returns whether or not the Alt modifier is down on this event.

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Boolean

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public isControlDown() : Boolean

Returns whether or not the Control modifier is down on this event.

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Returns whether or not the Control modifier is down on this event.

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Boolean

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public isMetaDown() : Boolean

Returns whether or not the Meta modifier is down on this event.

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Returns whether or not the Meta modifier is down on this event.

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Boolean

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public isShiftDown() : Boolean

Returns whether or not the Shift modifier is down on this event.

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Returns whether or not the Shift modifier is down on this event.

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Boolean

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Inherited Functions