vkCreateEvent(3)
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Name
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vkCreateEvent - Create a new event object.

C Specification
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include::../protos/vkCreateEvent.txt[]

Parameters
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pname:device::
    A handle to the device with which to create the event.

pname:pCreateInfo::
    A pointer to the creation info structure.

pname:pEvent::
    The address of an VK_EVENT variable that will receive the handle to the new event.

Description
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fname:vkCreateEvent creates a new event object using the device specified as
pname:device. A handle to the newly created event object is placed the
variable pointed to by pname:pEvent. pname:pCreateInfo is a pointer to an
instance of a slink:VkEventCreateInfo structure containing information about
the state in which to create the new object. The definition of
slink:VkEventCreateInfo is:

include::../structs/VkEventCreateInfo.txt[]

The pname:sType member of the slink:VkEventCreateInfo structure should be set to
ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_EVENT_CREATE_INFO. The pname:pNext member is reserved
for use by extensions and should be set to code:NULL.

The pname:flags member specifies additional information about the event to be
created. There are presently no flags defined for this member and it should be
set to zero.

include::../validity/protos/vkCreateEvent.txt[]

See Also
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flink:vkSetEvent, flink:vkResetEvent, flink:vkCmdSetEvent, flink:vkCmdResetEvent

include::footer.txt[]