Keysym to modifiers state

[Cvetelin Andreev]

Search where? in keysymdef.h?

With XLookupString(some_event) I can convert keycode+modifiers to keysym,  
I want to do the opposite one from keysym to keycode + modifiers so i can  
pass the keycode and the modifiers to XSednEvent

On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:24:38 +0200, Jim Gettys <jg at freedesktop.org> wrote:

> You'll have to search for the keysym I suspect...
> 			- Jim
>
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 17:13 +0200, Cvetelin Andreev wrote:
>> The problem is that I dont have an event. I have only a keysym. I want  
>> to
>> emulate a key event to specified window.
>>
>> On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:05:12 +0200, Jim Gettys <jg at freedesktop.org>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> > No, you get the modifiers state from the event itself.  All keypress
>> > events include this information.
>> > 			- Jim
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 14:51 +0200, Cvetelin Andreev wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> After a week researching did not find some answers.
>> >>
>> >> I want to send a KeyEvent with XSendEvent with specified keysym. But  
>> the
>> >> KeyEvent structure requres keycode (which is system dependant) and
>> >> modifiers. I can obtain the keycode from the keysym with
>> >> KKeysymToKeycode,
>> >> but what about modifiers?
>> >> A solution is to get the keycode, and to test this keycode with all
>> >> modifiers masks for equality with the original keysym with
>> >> XKeycodeToKeysym (or ewith constructing event with each modifiers
>> >> combination and test it with XLookupString). However the  
>> combinations of
>> >> modifiers are large number.
>> >>
>> >> So is there a way to get the modifiers state from the keysym?
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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Cvetelin Andreev