TWinControl.IntfUTF8KeyPress function

Member of TWinControlpublicIn unit Controls

Called by the interface after the navigation and specials keys are handled; i.e. after KeyDown but before KeyPress.

Declaration

pascal

function IntfUTF8KeyPress(var UTF8Key: TUTF8Char; RepeatCount: Integer; 
 SystemKey: Boolean): Boolean; virtual

`UTF8Key`	The UTF-8 encoding of the character.
`RepeatCount`	Must be greater than zero, the exact value is ignored.
`SystemKey`	Must be False, else nothing happens.

True when multiple keystrokes have been processed.

Essentially expands a repeat count into multiple keystrokes. Cannot be used for SysKeys.

An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.