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# Custom Events

In Softimage, user actions such as creating new scenes, rendering frames, and pressing keys trigger events. You can write special functions to handle events, and register these functions with Softimage as event handlers. Whenever an event is triggered, Softimage calls the event handlers registered for that event.

#### Topics in this section

- What is an Event?
- Supported Events
- Creating an Event
- Registering Event Handlers
- Event Callbacks
- Context Attributes
- Muting Events
- Programmatically Installing Event Handlers