hi,
i'm a relatively new user of xlib.

my question(s) is:

when i catch a keypress event is there a mode to know a priori (on all
machines) at wich xkey.state correspond every keymask?

for example when i press shift+a, on the second stroke the state
member is different from pc to pc (or from keyboard to keyboard) :
sometimes it gives 0, other times 16, 17

another fact is that all modifier keys of my keyboard are seen like
mod2mask so i can't know for every modkey at what mask it correspond

thanks for interesting

michele

On Oct 3, 9:51*am, michele wrote:
> hi,
> i'm a relatively new user of xlib.
>
> my question(s) is:
>
> when i catch a keypress event is there a mode to know a priori (on all
> machines) at wich xkey.state correspond every keymask?
>
> for example when i press shift+a, on the second stroke the state
> member is different from pc to pc (or from keyboard to keyboard) :
> sometimes it gives 0, other times 16, 17
>
> another fact is that all modifier keys of my keyboard are seen like
> mod2mask so i can't know for every modkey at what mask it correspond
>
> thanks for interesting
>

You need to use XLookupString() to interpret the keycode.

You have a serious problem with your implementation if all modifiers
claim to match mod2mask.
Are you sure you are checking properly?
( event->state & ControlMask )
should be true if the Control key is down, and false if not.
--
Fred Kleinschmidt