Re: reading keyboard

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

The docs for GdkEventKey say

  The only correct way to handle text input of text is
  using input methods (see GtkIMContext), so this field is
  deprecated and should never be used.
  (gdk_unicode_to_keyval() [sic] provides a non-deprecated
  way of getting an approximate translation for a key.)

The best function for your purposes is probably
gdk_keyval_to_unicode (that's a typo in the paragraph, I
believe).

Noah

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 21:22:04 -0700, Shiraz Baig wrote:
> Yes, that is what I gathered. even->keyval gives me
> the scan code. 
> 
> But isn't there a routine to convert it to ASCII
> rather than me writing it afresh. I am sure there must
> be many who would be requiring it. 
> thanks
> shiraz
>