[xkbcommon] How to distinguish left-shift and right-shift

[Wander Lairson Costa]

2013/9/26 Ran Benita <ran234 at gmail.com>:

[snip]

>
> The information you need, if you want to use the key-down approach
> (which is the only one I can think of), is whether e.g. the Left Shift
> key is down at any given moment. This keys-state information is kept on
> the compositor, but now you need to reconstruct it on the client. The
> way to do it is as I outlined above, i.e. wl_keyboard.enter event, which
> gives you a wl_array of all the keys which are pressed +
> wl_keyboard.key events, which allow you to keep this array in sync.
>

This is what I was thinking about.

> (Though by a quick look at the Weston code, it might be that it sends
> key-down events for all the keys which are down when the focus is
> changed, that is, it replays what happened to get to the current state.
> So maybe you don't need the information in the wl_keyboard.enter after
> all, only the key events with an initial empty array. It should be easy
> to check which way is it).
>

But this is an weston implementation detail, I guess, other
compositors may not have the same behavior.


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Best Regards,
Wander Lairson Costa