How to get access to KeyEventType

[quendimax]

Hello,

I can't find a way to get access to KeyEventType from my rust source code. I want to check a value of KeyEvent.event_type member, but I can't. I have found that the enum resides in i_slint_core::input module, but I don't have access to it, and it is not re-exported via slint module.

[ogoffart]

This enum is currently internal (private API). KeyEvent is also private API.
Why do you need to have access to it?

[quendimax]

Why do you need to have access to it?

Actually there is no one clear answer. I'm writing a keybinding system that is configurable (using json configs), and it can contain sequences of keystrokes. Implementation all of this via Slint code looks too difficult now (if not impossible) because of the Slint's script language is not comprehensive now (doesn't have local variable, match/switch-case statements, enums, etc). So I decided to implement it on rust side, and it is why I use KeyEvent directly.

This enum is currently internal (private API). KeyEvent is also private API.

Yes, now I use the following trick :

// in my `ui` module
pub type Key = slint::private_unstable_api::re_exports::Key;
pub type KeyEvent = slint::private_unstable_api::re_exports::KeyEvent;
pub type EventResult = slint::private_unstable_api::re_exports::EventResult;

and I thought I could use the same trick for KeyEventType struct. But it is not accessible via this module path. I was a bit confused, because I thought that it is not possible to use KeyEvent::event_type member if its type is private. But at the same time I couldn't find a way to get the KeyEventType directly.

[ogoffart]

Note that as the name says, this API is unstable and may change accross releases.

But you can forward a callback from a FocusScope

enum KeyEventAction { pressed, release }
//...
FocusScope {
    key-pressed(event) => {  SomeGlobal.key-event(KeyEventAction.pressed, event.text)  }
}

something similar to that.
And then handle these events in rust.