Hi Beau, Dont know much about linux, but over on BSD there is a /dev/console . I am sure you can play with that, there are also open source key-loggers from which you can probebly extract the info you are looking for. Let me know how it go's.
Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "ktb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: Re: Getting keyboard scancode, etc. > On 23 Mar 2003 at 9:32, ktb wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 04:14:58AM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi Everyone - > > > > > > I remember using the DOS keyboard software interrupt > > > in the old, old days to get the scancode, shift/alt/ > > > ctrl state, the ascii code, etc. from a keystroke. > > > I need this information for a cross-os application > > > I am trying to write. > > > [...] > > > How do I get them in Linux running under X? I've > > > looked and looked in CPAN and nothing rings > > > a bell... > > > > > > Aloha => Beau; > > > > If you just want the scan-code - > > $ man -k key > > > > dumpkeys > > xmodmap > > > > hth, > > kent > > Thanks kent, but what I want to do is wait (or poll, > or get a key event) on the keyboard and when a key > is pressed (I guess actually on 'key up') obtain > the scancode and control key state at that time. > I am now looking through the X man pages - but I > still can't find any ready-to-go perl module... > > Aloha => Beau; > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
