[Vm-dev] "raw" keyboard events form the VM on unix?
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu May 27 07:58:32 UTC 2010
On 27.05.2010, at 04:32, David T. Lewis wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:12:03PM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> is there any way to get the unix VM to deliver raw keyboard events, or
>> at least control and shift key presses?
>
> I don't know enough to fully answer this, but I am fairly sure that
> the answer will turn out to be yes.
Well I assume Eliot meant "... without hacking the VM" in which case the answer would be "no". Everything else is just ASMOP, but he knows that ;)
- Bert -
> Assuming that the unix VM is running under X11, the raw information
> would be in the form of X11 events, which are translated into some more
> generic Squeak event format in platforms/unix/vm-display-X11/sqUnixX11.c.
>
> The low level keyboard event information, including shift key presses,
> would be represented as XKeyEvents, so I would expect that there is
> some way to make these available as events in the VM.
>
> X11 definitely does understand the shift keys, see for example
> /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h.
>
> John's API documentation may help: <http://isqueak.org/ioProcessEvents>
>
> Dave
>
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