source: trunk/gcc/libjava/java/awt/AWTEvent.java

/* AWTEvent.java -- the root event in AWT
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package java.awt;

import java.util.EventObject;

/**
 * AWTEvent is the root event class for all AWT events in the JDK 1.1 event 
 * model. It supersedes the Event class from JDK 1.0. Subclasses outside of
 * the java.awt package should have IDs greater than RESERVED_ID_MAX.
 *
 * <p>Event masks defined here are used by components in
 * <code>enableEvents</code> to select event types not selected by registered
 * listeners. Event masks are appropriately set when registering on
 * components.
 *
 * @author Warren Levy  <[email protected]>
 * @author Aaron M. Renn <[email protected]>
 * @since 1.1
 * @status updated to 1.4
 */
public abstract class AWTEvent extends EventObject
{
  /**
   * Compatible with JDK 1.1+.
   */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = -1825314779160409405L;

  /**
   * The ID of the event.
   *
   * @see #getID()
   * @see #AWTEvent(Object, int)
   * @serial the identifier number of this event
   */
  protected int id;

  /**
   * Indicates if the event has been consumed. False mean it is passed to
   * the peer, true means it has already been processed. Semantic events
   * generated by low-level events always have the value true.
   *
   * @see #consume()
   * @see #isConsumed()
   * @serial whether the event has been consumed
   */
  protected boolean consumed;

  /**
   * Who knows? It's in the serial version.
   *
   * @serial No idea what this is for.
   */
  byte[] bdata;

  /** Mask for selecting component events. */
  public static final long COMPONENT_EVENT_MASK = 0x00001;

  /** Mask for selecting container events. */
  public static final long CONTAINER_EVENT_MASK = 0x00002;

  /** Mask for selecting component focus events. */
  public static final long FOCUS_EVENT_MASK = 0x00004;

  /** Mask for selecting keyboard events. */
  public static final long KEY_EVENT_MASK = 0x00008;