/*

* Copyright (c) 2005 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

* All rights reserved.

* This component and the accompanying materials are made available

* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"

* which accompanies this distribution, and is available

* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".

*

* Initial Contributors:

* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.

*

* Contributors:

*

* Description: 

*     Interface which allows subscribers to consume key event or pass the event

*     to other view class.

*       

*

*/

#ifndef MKEYPROCESSOR_H

#define MKEYPROCESSOR_H

// INCLUDES

#include <w32std.h>

// FORWARD DECLARATIONS

class MAknTabObserver;

// ===========================================================================

// MKeyProcessor

// ===========================================================================

/**

*	An interface a CCoeControl class can implement to forward the keyevents 

*   before the actual control gets the key events. This is useful in 

*   situations where the control consumes keys which you need.

*/

class MKeyProcessor

    {

    public:

    /**

     * process the keyevent befor it reaches the control

     * @param aKeyEvent the event fired

     * @param aType the type of event

     * @return ETrue if key event was consumed, otherwise EFalse

     */

    virtual TBool ProcessKeyEventL( const TKeyEvent& aKeyEvent,

                                    TEventCode aType ) = 0;

	/**

     * returns the pointer to MAknTabObserver interface

     * @return pointer to the MAknTabObserver interface

     */

    virtual MAknTabObserver* TabObserver() = 0;

    };

#endif //MKEYPROCESSOR_H

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