Re: GUI-less app to capture key_press_events only



On Oct 5, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Eric Lenio wrote:

Actually the issue is related to the Curses.pm module: the problem is that Curses does NOT trigger an event by pressing the control (or shift or mod) key by itself. I fumbled my way through building a very simple Gtk2 app which did recognize the event. But that little test app had a Gtk window, and I want to
get away from having any window.
X applications cannot receive events unless they have an X window, 
because it is the X window that receives the event.  the gtk+ 
equivalent is a GdkWindow (the GdkWindow is an abstraction for a 
windowing system's lowlevel window object, and is an X window in the 
X11 target).  getting keyboard events also requires keyboard focus, so 
using a hidden window will be tricky magic at best.
so, if you're wanting to capture the Ctrl key in a terminal app, Gtk2 
will not help you at all.
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