XkbKeyActionEntry - Man Page

Returns a pointer to the key action corresponding to group grp and shift level lvl from the two-dimensional table of key actions associated with the key corresponding to keycode

Synopsis

XkbAction * XkbKeyActionEntry (XkbDescPtr xkb, KeyCode keycode, int shift, int grp);

Arguments

xkb

Xkb description of interest

keycode

keycode of interest

shift

shift level within group

grp

group index for group of interest

Description

A key action defines the effect key presses and releases have on the internal  state of the server. For example,  the expected key action associated with pressing the Shift key is to set the  Shift modifier. There is zero or one  key action associated with each keysym bound to each key.

Just as the entire list of key symbols for the keyboard mapping is held in the syms field of the client map, the entire list of key actions for the keyboard mapping  is held in the acts array of the server map. The total size of acts is specified by size_acts, and the number of entries is specified by num_acts.

The key_acts array, indexed by keycode, describes the actions associated with a key. The key_acts array has min_key_code unused entries at the start to allow direct indexing using a keycode. If a key_acts entry is zero, it means the key does not have any actions associated with it. If  an entry is not zero, the entry  represents an index into the acts field of the server map, much as the offset field of a KeySymMapRec structure is an index into the syms field of the client map.

The reason the acts field is a linear list of XkbActions is to reduce the memory consumption  associated with a keymap. Because Xkb  allows individual keys to have multiple shift levels and a different number of  groups per key, a single  two-dimensional array of KeySyms would potentially be very large and sparse.  Instead, Xkb provides a small  two-dimensional array of XkbActions for each key. To store all of these  individual arrays, Xkb concatenates each  array together in the acts field of the server map.

The key action structures consist only of fields of type char or unsigned char.  This is done to optimize data  transfer when the server sends bytes over the wire. If the fields are anything  but bytes, the server has to sift  through all of the actions and swap any nonbyte fields. Because they consist of  nothing but bytes, it can just  copy them out.

XkbKeyActionEntry returns the key action corresponding to group grp and shift level lvl from the two-dimensional table of key actions associated with the key  corresponding to keycode.

Structures

The KeySymMapRec structure is defined as follows:

    #define XkbNumKbdGroups             4
    #define XkbMaxKbdGroup              (XkbNumKbdGroups-1)
    
    typedef struct {                    /* map to keysyms for a single keycode */
        unsigned char       kt_index[XkbNumKbdGroups];  /* key type index for each group */
        unsigned char       group_info; /* # of groups and out of range group handling */
        unsigned char       width;      /* max # of shift levels for key */
        unsigned short      offset;     /* index to keysym table in syms array */
} XkbSymMapRec, *XkbSymMapPtr;

Referenced By

XkbApplyCompatMapToKey(3).

libX11 1.8.7 X Version 11 XKB FUNCTIONS