jgm@fed.expres.cs.cmu.edu (John G. Myers) (02/13/90)
I'm writing an application (a terminal emulator for emacs) which wants to treat the "Alternate" key as a meta key. If I get a keyDown event with the NX_ALTERNATEMASK, I want to find the charCode that the event would have had if the event didn't have NX_ALTERNATEMASK. I can take the keyCode and do a lookup in a table constructed from the keyboard layout given in the online manual, but that's hardware-dependent. Anyone have a hardware-independent solution? Replies to me--I'll summarize. -- _.John G. Myers Internet: jgm@fed.expres.cs.cmu.edu (412) 268-2984 LoseNet: ...!seismo!ihnp4!wiscvm.wisc.edu!give!up
jgm@fed.expres.cs.cmu.edu (John G. Myers) (02/20/90)
In article <7953@pt.cs.cmu.edu> I wrote: >If I get a keyDown event with the NX_ALTERNATEMASK, I want to find the >charCode that the event would have had if the event didn't have >NX_ALTERNATEMASK. The solution was to open /dev/evs0 and read the keyboard mapping with the EVSIOCKM ioctl. When I get a keyboard event with NX_ALTERNATEMASK set, I look up the charCode for the keyCode myself. Further details upon request. This won't work perfectly if the display server is running on a different machine with a different keyboard, but it's better than nothing. Thanks to ramsdell@linus.mitre.org for sending me a sample program which reads the keyboard map. -- _.John G. Myers Internet: jgm@fed.expres.cs.cmu.edu (412) 268-2984 LoseNet: ...!seismo!ihnp4!wiscvm.wisc.edu!give!up