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<p>Functions to handle events and fetch the current state of the event.
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<p>Functions to handle events and fetch the current state of the event. </p>
<p>libevdev updates its internal state as the event is processed and forwarded to the caller. Thus, the libevdev state of the device should always be identical to the caller's state. It may however lag behind the actual state of the device. </p>
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<p>Check if there are events waiting for us. </p>
<p>This function does not read an event off the fd and may not access the fd at all. If there are events queued internally this function will return non-zero. If the internal queue is empty, this function will poll the file descriptor for data.</p>
<p>This is a convenience function for simple processes, most complex programs are expected to use select(2) or poll(2) on the file descriptor. The kernel guarantees that if data is available, it is a multiple of sizeof(struct input_event), and thus calling <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gabb96c864e836c0b98788f4ab771c3a76" title="Get the next event from the device.">libevdev_next_event()</a> when select(2) or poll(2) return is safe. You do not need <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gae18fbfb59064c9c4b9d5db2d8cb23784" title="Check if there are events waiting for us.">libevdev_has_event_pending()</a> if you're using select(2) or poll(2).</p>
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<p>Get the next event from the device. </p>
<p>This function operates in two different modes: normal mode or sync mode.</p>
<p>In normal mode (when flags has <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gga56c288d9f2e4c1632986c4e218c494e9ac0d6ee19551eecf76f1ede4f36252418">LIBEVDEV_READ_FLAG_NORMAL</a> set), this function returns <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gga4a96221b3c7f54dfb86035d952154e3aab053221fc1c9630eee7111b75aa0aec7">LIBEVDEV_READ_STATUS_SUCCESS</a> and returns the event in the argument <code>ev</code>. If no events are available at this time, it returns -EAGAIN and ev is undefined.</p>
<p>If the current event is an EV_SYN SYN_DROPPED event, this function returns <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gga4a96221b3c7f54dfb86035d952154e3aa8d70b14a38204fde4ad433023baa545a">LIBEVDEV_READ_STATUS_SYNC</a> and ev is set to the EV_SYN event. The caller should now call this function with the <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gga56c288d9f2e4c1632986c4e218c494e9a1f13a19641d6dafcf01a86a6389800f8">LIBEVDEV_READ_FLAG_SYNC</a> flag set, to get the set of events that make up the device state delta. This function returns <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gga4a96221b3c7f54dfb86035d952154e3aa8d70b14a38204fde4ad433023baa545a">LIBEVDEV_READ_STATUS_SYNC</a> for each event part of that delta, until it returns -EAGAIN once all events have been synced. For more details on what libevdev does to sync after a SYN_DROPPED event, see <a class="el" href="syn_dropped.html">SYN_DROPPED handling</a>.</p>
<p>If a device needs to be synced by the caller but the caller does not call with the <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gga56c288d9f2e4c1632986c4e218c494e9a1f13a19641d6dafcf01a86a6389800f8">LIBEVDEV_READ_FLAG_SYNC</a> flag set, all events from the diff are dropped after libevdev updates its internal state and event processing continues as normal. Note that the current slot and the state of touch points may have updated during the SYN_DROPPED event, it is strongly recommended that a caller ignoring all sync events calls <a class="el" href="group__mt.html#gad22e2420be668b56ef486cde2e98c5dd" title="Get the currently active slot.">libevdev_get_current_slot()</a> and checks the ABS_MT_TRACKING_ID values for all slots.</p>
<p>If a device has changed state without events being enqueued in libevdev, e.g. after changing the file descriptor, use the <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gga56c288d9f2e4c1632986c4e218c494e9a5198e5c9cc98b75f73f61b104d6a674c">LIBEVDEV_READ_FLAG_FORCE_SYNC</a> flag. This triggers an internal sync of the device and <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gabb96c864e836c0b98788f4ab771c3a76" title="Get the next event from the device.">libevdev_next_event()</a> returns <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gga4a96221b3c7f54dfb86035d952154e3aa8d70b14a38204fde4ad433023baa545a">LIBEVDEV_READ_STATUS_SYNC</a>. Any state changes are available as events as described above. If <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gga56c288d9f2e4c1632986c4e218c494e9a5198e5c9cc98b75f73f61b104d6a674c">LIBEVDEV_READ_FLAG_FORCE_SYNC</a> is set, the value of ev is undefined.</p>
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