[Vm-dev] [Windows cog vm] [Keyboard events related] about keycode mapping

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Thu Jan 26 21:43:05 UTC 2012


On 1/26/2012 22:30, Guillermo Polito wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de 
> <mailto:andreas.raab at gmx.de>> wrote:
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>     On 1/26/2012 17:00, Igor Stasenko wrote:
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>         Guillermo,
>         please make the functional keys working on windows. thanks :)
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>     The function keys work perfectly fine on Windows. You need to
>     handle the keyDown events with the proper VK_FXX values, ranging
>     from 0x70 (F1) through 0x87 (F24).
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> True.  But it would be good if the codes reaching the image for the 
> same function keys are the same :).  But for that there should be a 
> discussion about how to arrange the keycodes to suite the three platforms.

We had this discussion already. There was general agreement that 
probably the best way to do this would be based on the X11/keysym.h 
because it seems to be the most complete source for key codes. It's just 
that that nobody sat down and wrote the mapping from VK_XXX to XK_YYY.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

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>     Cheers,
>      - Andreas
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> Guille
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