Class: Event

• Inheritance
• Description
• Instance protocol
  • accessing

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Message
      |
      +--MessageSend
         |
         +--Event
            |
            +--WindowEvent

Package:

stx:libview

Category:

Interface-Support-UI

Version:

rev: 1.6 date: 2021/05/20 12:50:27

user: erghilazghi

file: Event.st directory: libview

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libview

Description:

An abstract class that has been inserted recently into the long-time-existing
WindowEvent hierarchy for more VW compatibility. Especially to provide a home
for subclasses of UI.Event.

The real code has been and still is in WindowEvent.

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Instance protocol:

 ensureTimeStamped

ensure that I have a timestamp;
If I have none (yet), add one

 originator

 originator: something

 repeatCount

for protocol compatibility with mouseWheelEvents

 target

return the target, for which the event is for

 target: anObject

set the target, for which the event is for

 timeStamp

 timeStamp: aTimestamp