PadControllerRef

public struct PadControllerRef : PadControllerProtocol, GWeakCapturing

GtkPadController is an event controller for the pads found in drawing tablets.

Pads are the collection of buttons and tactile sensors often found around the stylus-sensitive area.

These buttons and sensors have no implicit meaning, and by default they perform no action. GtkPadController is provided to map those to GAction objects, thus letting the application give them a more semantic meaning.

Buttons and sensors are not constrained to triggering a single action, some GDK_SOURCE_TABLET_PAD devices feature multiple “modes”. All these input elements have one current mode, which may determine the final action being triggered.

Pad devices often divide buttons and sensors into groups. All elements in a group share the same current mode, but different groups may have different modes. See [methodGdk.DevicePad.get_n_groups] and [methodGdk.DevicePad.get_group_n_modes].

Each of the actions that a given button/strip/ring performs for a given mode is defined by a [structGtk.PadActionEntry]. It contains an action name that will be looked up in the given GActionGroup and activated whenever the specified input element and mode are triggered.

A simple example of GtkPadController usage: Assigning button 1 in all modes and pad devices to an “invert-selection” action:

GtkPadActionEntry *pad_actions[] = {
  { GTK_PAD_ACTION_BUTTON, 1, -1, "Invert selection", "pad-actions.invert-selection" },
  …
};

…
action_group = g_simple_action_group_new ();
action = g_simple_action_new ("pad-actions.invert-selection", NULL);
g_signal_connect (action, "activate", on_invert_selection_activated, NULL);
g_action_map_add_action (G_ACTION_MAP (action_group), action);
…
pad_controller = gtk_pad_controller_new (action_group, NULL);

The actions belonging to rings/strips will be activated with a parameter of type G_VARIANT_TYPE_DOUBLE bearing the value of the given axis, it is required that those are made stateful and accepting this GVariantType.

The PadControllerRef type acts as a lightweight Swift reference to an underlying GtkPadController instance. It exposes methods that can operate on this data type through PadControllerProtocol conformance. Use PadControllerRef only as an unowned reference to an existing GtkPadController instance.

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  • ptr 
    Untyped pointer to the underlying `GtkPadController` instance.

    For type-safe access, use the generated, typed pointer pad_controller_ptr property instead.

    Declaration

    Swift

    public let ptr: UnsafeMutableRawPointer!
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PadController Class

  • Designated initialiser from the underlying C data type

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init(_ p: UnsafeMutablePointer<GtkPadController>)
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  • Designated initialiser from a constant pointer to the underlying C data type

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init(_ p: UnsafePointer<GtkPadController>)
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  • Conditional initialiser from an optional pointer to the underlying C data type

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init!(_ maybePointer: UnsafeMutablePointer<GtkPadController>?)
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  • Conditional initialiser from an optional, non-mutable pointer to the underlying C data type

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init!(_ maybePointer: UnsafePointer<GtkPadController>?)
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  • Conditional initialiser from an optional gpointer

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init!(gpointer g: gpointer?)
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  • Conditional initialiser from an optional, non-mutable gconstpointer

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init!(gconstpointer g: gconstpointer?)
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  • Reference intialiser for a related type that implements PadControllerProtocol

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init<T>(_ other: T) where T : PadControllerProtocol
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  • This factory is syntactic sugar for setting weak pointers wrapped in GWeak<T>

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
static func unowned<T>(_ other: T) -> PadControllerRef where T : PadControllerProtocol
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  • Unsafe typed initialiser. Do not use unless you know the underlying data type the pointer points to conforms to PadControllerProtocol.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init<T>(cPointer: UnsafeMutablePointer<T>)
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  • Unsafe typed initialiser. Do not use unless you know the underlying data type the pointer points to conforms to PadControllerProtocol.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init<T>(constPointer: UnsafePointer<T>)
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  • Unsafe untyped initialiser. Do not use unless you know the underlying data type the pointer points to conforms to PadControllerProtocol.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init(mutating raw: UnsafeRawPointer)
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  • Unsafe untyped initialiser. Do not use unless you know the underlying data type the pointer points to conforms to PadControllerProtocol.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init(raw: UnsafeMutableRawPointer)
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  • Unsafe untyped initialiser. Do not use unless you know the underlying data type the pointer points to conforms to PadControllerProtocol.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init(opaquePointer: OpaquePointer)
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  • Creates a new `GtkPadController` that will associate events from `pad` to

    actions.

    A nil pad may be provided so the controller manages all pad devices generically, it is discouraged to mix GtkPadController objects with nil and non-nil pad argument on the same toplevel window, as execution order is not guaranteed.

    The GtkPadController is created with no mapped actions. In order to map pad events to actions, use [methodGtk.PadController.set_action_entries] or [methodGtk.PadController.set_action].

    Be aware that pad events will only be delivered to GtkWindows, so adding a pad controller to any other type of widget will not have an effect.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
init<ActionGroupT, DeviceT>(group: ActionGroupT, pad: DeviceT?) where ActionGroupT : ActionGroupProtocol, DeviceT : DeviceProtocol
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