On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 07:56, Peter Bergmann wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to query the real state of a specific key > (Pressed/Released?) with xlib ? > Does xkb offer functions for this issue?
XKB allows you to switch to "detectable auto-repeat" mode, where you get Press/Press/Press/Release rather than Press/Release Press/Release Press/Release. You can emulate this on servers without XKB by looking at the timestamps for the events. (You can look at the GTK+ sources in gtk+/gdk/x11 / to see both how it uses XKB and how it emulates when XKB is missing) With that, you should be able to come to something pretty close to what you want; reference here is the "locate pointer" code in the GNOME control center (gnome-control-center/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-mouse.c) That shows how to use XGrabKey and XAllowEvents to trap a press/release of a key without intervening key presses, while otherwise letting through the key events to applications. Regards, Owen _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel