Re: Determining XKeysyms

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman sun com>]

XSetInputFocus(XOpenDisplay(NULL),focuswindow,RevertToNone,CurrentTime); 
>> XGetInputFocus(XOpenDisplay(NULL),&testwindow,&i);
>> SPI_generateKeyboardEvent 
(XStringToKeysym(label.c_str()),"",SPI_KEY_SYM);
>
>In the end, I've just avoided the issue by making Dasher refuse to take 
>focus when in key entering mode, 

Yes, you have to make sure the app generating the keystrokes rejects 
focus.  GOK does the same thing by registering for WM_TAKE_FOCUS and 
then always discarding the focus event it gets; see main.c I think 
(perhaps it's callbacks.c) in gok/gok.


>and then grabbing the pointer once the 
>user starts Dasher so they can't accidently change to focussing a 
>different window. This works fairly nicely. I get a Bonobo complaint 
>about an object being NULL, but I'll look into that later on (I assume 
>I'm supposed to be initialising something somewhere along the way).
>
>On the other hand, XStringToKeysym seems to work very badly - it only 
>matches letters. 

XStringToKeysym matches letters, yep.  That's what it's intended to do, 
convert from a "string" format character to an X Keysym.  That's what 
you originally wanted to do, I think :-)


>I assume that the string it wants is actually the name 
>of a keysym, rather than an arbitrary string (the man page isn't a lot 
>of use here)? I could hardcode punctuation, but then I assume I'd end 
up 
>with having to do the same for accented characters and suchlike. 

I don't understand what you mean by "accented characters" - of course 
they are different characters, thus different strings and different 
KeySyms.


>Having 
>the functionality to just ask at-spi to deal with this stuff for me 
>would make my life far, far easier :)
>
>I'll stick my dev tree up somewhere if people would like to take a look 
>at it. I'm working with GTK2 now, and the only extra dependency should 
>be the spi stuff.


Let me know where you put this, I'd be happy to take a quick look.

-Bill

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>Matthew Garrett | mjg59 srcf ucam org

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Bill Haneman x19279
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland