/**
Virtual keycodes used by wxKeyEvent and some other wxWidgets functions.
- Note that the range @c 33 - @c 126 is reserved for the standard ASCII
- characters and that the range @c 128 - @c 255 is reserved for the
- extended ASCII characters (which are not really standard and thus should
- be avoid in portable apps!).
+ Note that the range <code>0..255</code> corresponds to the characters of
+ the current locale, in particular the <code>32..127</code> subrange is for
+ the ASCII symbols, and all the special key values such as @c WXK_END lie
+ above this range.
*/
enum wxKeyCode
{
+ /**
+ No key.
+
+ This value is returned by wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() if there is no
+ non-Unicode representation for the pressed key (e.g. a Cyrillic letter
+ was entered when not using a Cyrillic locale) and by
+ wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey() if there is no Unicode representation for
+ the key (this happens for the special, non printable, keys only, e.g.
+ WXK_HOME).
+
+ @since 2.9.2 (you can simply use 0 with previous versions).
+ */
+ WXK_NONE = 0,
+
WXK_BACK = 8, //!< Backspace.
WXK_TAB = 9,
WXK_RETURN = 13,
WXK_DELETE = 127,
/**
- These are, by design, not compatible with unicode characters.
- If you want to get a unicode character from a key event, use
- wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey instead.
+ Special key values.
+
+ These are, by design, not compatible with Unicode characters.
+ If you want to get a Unicode character from a key event, use
+ wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey() instead.
*/
WXK_START = 300,
WXK_LBUTTON,