Add a bit of docs to key_events.h

Briefly document the key event handling flow, to make it clearer how the
functions can be used.

Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
pull/35/head
Gergely Nagy 8 years ago
parent 477dcb5aed
commit 128d263916

@ -15,8 +15,36 @@ extern uint8_t temporary_keymap;
extern const Key keymaps[][ROWS][COLS];
// sending events to the computer
void handle_synthetic_key_event( Key mappedKey, uint8_t currentState, uint8_t previousState);
/* The event handling starts with the Scanner calling handle_key_event() for
* every key in the matrix, and it is the task of this method to figure out what
* to do, it is the main entry point.
*
* This function will iterate through an array of handler functions, and stop as
* soon as one of them signals that the event has been handled. To make it
* possible to inject synthetic events, one can call handle_key_event from
* within a custom handler (making the event handling recursive), with a
* different keycode.
*
* This is useful for example for one-shot modifiers, where we would like to
* temporarily disable the one-shot functionality, and have them work as a
* normal modifier instead. In this case, the keymap would contain a key with
* OSM flags set, and the event handler would remove the OSM flags, and let the
* system handle the key as it would have, without the OSM flags. So we simply
* clear the flags, and call handle_key_event again, with the modifier keycode
* as the first argument. This way, we could insert an event, and have the whole
* chain re-process it, instead of registering the keycode ourselves with HID
* ourselves. Injecting allows any and all custom handlers to have a chance,
* too.
*
* For this reason, the handle_key_event receives four arguments: the mapped key
* (or Key_NoKey if we do not want to override what is in the keymap), the row
* and column of the key, so we can look up the code for it, and the current and
* previous state of the key, so we can determine what the event is.
*/
void handle_key_event(Key mappedKey, byte row, byte col, uint8_t currentState, uint8_t previousState);
// Internal use
void handle_synthetic_key_event( Key mappedKey, uint8_t currentState, uint8_t previousState);
void press_key(Key mappedKey);
void handle_keymap_key_event(Key keymapEntry, uint8_t currentState, uint8_t previousState);
void handle_mouse_key_event(Key mappedKey, uint8_t currentState, uint8_t previousState);

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