Re: reading keyboard

[Shiraz Baig <shiraz_baig yahoo com>]

Thanks. You r right. There is a typo :-) If you are
hinting to even->keyval, it should be event->keyval.

BTW, is there a simple way to locate function calls by
name from AP reference documents. For example, if I
want to locate the gdk_unicode_to_keyval() in the
reference documents, is there a search mechanism
provided in the API?

What I do, presently, is that I go to that directory
and do a search of all files for all words to locate
this string. Thus I locate that file, which contains
this string. Then I go to that file, open it and again
locate that string. I am sure there must be a simpler
method of locating functions in the API documents.

bye
shiraz

--- Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu> wrote:
> 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
> > 


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