###### (This is the documentation for SDL3, which is the current stable version. [SDL2](https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/) was the previous version!)
# SDL_CommonEvent

Fields shared by every event

## Header File

Defined in [<SDL3/SDL_events.h>](https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/include/SDL3/SDL_events.h)

## Syntax

```c
typedef struct SDL_CommonEvent
{
    Uint32 type;        /**< Event type, shared with all events, Uint32 to cover user events which are not in the SDL_EventType enumeration */
    Uint32 reserved;
    Uint64 timestamp;   /**< In nanoseconds, populated using SDL_GetTicksNS() */
} SDL_CommonEvent;
```

## Version

This struct is available since SDL 3.1.3.

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