Pressing ESC to close the application.

[Mel]

Someone asked me I hope you find it useful. It is a simple event receiver class that exits the program when the key ESC is pressed. it can be mixed with more complete event receivers easily, i guess. It simply calls the runtime to exit the program inmediately

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class escEventReceiver : public irr::IEventReceiver
{
    virtual bool OnEvent (const irr::SEvent &event)
    {
        if(event.EventType == irr::EET_KEY_INPUT_EVENT)
        {
            if(event.KeyInput.Key == irr::KEY_ESCAPE)
            {
                exit(0);//We exit 
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
};
 

[greenya]

Why not closeDevice() and allow execution of some code after while-device-run loop?

[Mel]

The point is to properly check the pressing of the Esc key, it is intended to be directly used, as the exit call frees all the user memory, closes all the opened files and so on, is a quick way to end the program, and seems that all the underlying systems have their own way to handle the exit call. So it is safe. Anyway it can be modified to call closeDevice().

[The_Glitch]

It doesn't seem to do anything for me.

[Mel]

Well, it is pretty straightforward... Have you set the event receiver in the device?

[The_Glitch]

escEventReceiver* receiver;
receiver = new escEventReceiver();

after device is created or defined in your code post
device->setEventReceiver(receiver);

Thanks Mel.