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# SDL_SysWMEvent

## Name

SDL_SysWMEvent -- Platform-dependent window manager event.

## Description

The system window manager event contains a pointer to system-specific information about unknown window manager events. If you enable this event using `SDL_EventState()`, it will be generated whenever unhandled events are received from the window manager. This can be used, for example, to implement cut-and-paste in your application.

    typedef struct {
             Uint8 type;   /* Always SDL_SYSWMEVENT */
             SDL_SysWMmsg *msg;
     } SDL_SysWMEvent;

If you want to obtain system-specific information about the window manager, you can fill the version member of a SDL_SysWMinfo structure (details can be found in `SDL_syswm.h`, which must be included) using the `SDL_VERSION()` macro found in `SDL_version.h`, and pass it to the function:

``int SDL_GetWMInfo`(SDL_SysWMinfo *info);`

## See Also

`SDL_EventState`

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