Thanks Niels for explaining this clearly. I was successfully able to map one key using SetKeymapEntry. Since calling this for all keys would be cumbersome I tried LoadKeymap with a keymap file. However I'm not clear on the syntax of keymap file yet.
The header file directfb.h says it should be of the format keycode <hw code> = <key id> = <symbol> .... (up to 4 symbols) I tried one entry giving: keycode 0x1e = A = A But it seems to not working. When I look closely by putting prints in LoadKeymap function, I found that its not calling SetKeymapEntry at all but returning to start of while loop after the check for capslock: , :capslock ...... Where am I going wrong? Can you please give an example of one keymap entry so that it would be helpful for me? Thanks & Regards, Harinandan S On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Niels Roest <ni...@directfb.org> wrote: > DirectFB distinguishes the following states: > > keycode - this is just a number corresponding to a physical key. My > keyboard outputs numbers from 0 to 127. > identifier - this is an ID corresponding to the physical letter written on > the key. So with this you distinguish QWERTY from AZERTY, e.g. > symbol - this is the key shown on the screen. It comes in 4 flavours: no > modifiers pressed, SHIFT, AltGR, and SHIFT+AltGR. > in the end, you can specify 7 values for each key: code, id, 4 symbols and > lock state. > lock state modifies the modifiers :) e.g. if you have CapsLock on and press > SHIFT on the letter "A" you want "a" and not "A" to show, for this you > enable the CapsLock lock state on the keycode corresponding to the A. > > hth > Niels > > Harinandan S wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I had not connected my keyboard so it was crashing. I connected it and >> GetInputDevice didnt crash. I want to know whether this keymap is a standard >> keymap format? Since when I compared one keymap from vim with this, the >> format was different. >> I also didnt understand what the locks state mean? Also there are four >> symbols to be defined when normal, shift, alt, alt+shift is pressed. Also >> there is an identifier. What is the symbol which actually gets displayed - >> Is it identifier or corresponding symbol? >> >> Regards, >> Harinandan S >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Harinandan S <harinand...@gmail.com<mailto: >> harinand...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> Thanks Niels. I took the patch and used DirectFB 1.3.0. I called >> SetKeymapEntry for one key to check how it works. But gtk is >> crashing. I had earlier commented out this part of code : >> directfb->GetInputDevice (directfb, DIDID_KEYBOARD, &keyboard); >> since i didnt have keyboard and it was crashing. Now I removed the >> comment and it has started to crash? Why is this GetInputDevice >> crashing? Does it try to access keyboard when this is called? My >> keyboard comes up as /dev/event0 in my system. >> >> Regards, >> Harinandan S >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Niels Roest <ni...@directfb.org >> <mailto:ni...@directfb.org>> wrote: >> >> You are using devmem together with linux_input. >> This does not support getting the keymap. >> If you want to make it work you have to enter the keymap >> manually, this is part of a recent patch: >> >> http://git.directfb.org/?p=core/DirectFB.git;a=commit;h=f7bf438159e3da4c733d98c1a0e47eee11f50795 >> >> so >> (1) take the patch, or take the newest sources >> (2) use IDirectFBInputDevice->SetKeymap for each key or >> LoadKeymap for all keys with a file provided. >> directfb.h contains a small documentation comment about the >> file format. >> >> hth >> Niels >> >> Harinandan S wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> I am using DirectFB 1.1.1 with devmem, davinci gfx driver >> and linux input. I have got mouse to work but unable to >> get keyboard to work. I have removed the code to get >> keymap since GTK was crashing. What is keymap and how to >> get it? >> What needs to be done to get USB keyboard to work in this >> configuration? >> >> Regards, >> Harinandan S >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> directfb-users mailing list >> directfb-users@directfb.org >> <mailto:directfb-users@directfb.org> >> >> http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users >> >> >> >> -- >> .------------------------------------------. >> | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | >> | http://www.directfb.org/ | >> "------------------------------------------" >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> directfb-users mailing list >> directfb-users@directfb.org >> http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users >> >> > > > -- > > .------------------------------------------. > | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | > | http://www.directfb.org/ | > "------------------------------------------" >
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