Re: hardware keycode

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

It looks to me like gdk_keymap_get_entries_for_keyval is
what you want, and you just have memory management problems.
keys and n_keys are probably not allocated. 

 GdkKeymapKey *keys;
 gint n_keys;
 gdk_keymap_get_entries_for_keyval (NULL, GDK_1, &keys, &n_keys);

Noah

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 14:37:45 -0600, Peter Gasper wrote:
> I am creating an GdkEvent manually. How do I determine the hardware keycode for a
> key in gdk/gdkkeysyms.h so I can fill in the value?
>
> Or is that something which is dependent on the installation/system? If so how? Is
> there a way to discover the hardware keycodes at runtime?
>
>
> I tried using gdk_keymap_get_entries_for_keyval to do this but I got segfaults in the else portion of the 
> following code.
>                       
>
>                       GdkKeymapKey **keys;
>                       gint *n_keys;
>                       if( !gdk_keymap_get_entries_for_keyval(NULL, GDK_1, keys, n_keys) )
>                       {
>                               cout << "Keyval translation failed." << endl;
>                       }
>                       else
>                       {
>                               cout << *n_keys << endl;
>                               cout << "hardware_keycode: " << keys[0]->keycode << endl;
>                               cout << "group: " << keys[0]->group << endl;
>                               cout << "level: " << keys[0]->level << endl;
>                               cout << "done" << endl;
>                       }