Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

[Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:04:50AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:32:00PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:22:05AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>> Mmm; I wonder if it could be done with the mouse buttons instead of the 
>>>>> keyboard, or if the same problem exists there ....
>>
>> what does xev use? it detects keypress and release....
>>
>
> But that's in X. So you would have to write an X app. and could use Qt that 
> has keypress/release methods.

Well, I was butting in the middle, so... salt liberally, 

What I meant was xev shows
that there is a method to determine keypress and release and it's just
a matter of figuring out that method. (I realise this may already have
been discussed). But I guess it would be fairly obfuscated since it
relies on X to get the event. NM.

A

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