# Xlib.XK -- X keysym defs # # Copyright (C) 2000 Peter Liljenberg # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 # of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. # See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library; if not, write to the # Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 59 Temple Place, # Suite 330, # Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # # This module defines some functions for working with X keysyms as well # as a modular keysym definition and loading mechanism. See the keysym # definition modules in the Xlib/keysymdef directory. from Xlib.X import NoSymbol def string_to_keysym(keysym): '''Return the (16 bit) numeric code of keysym. Given the name of a keysym as a string, return its numeric code. Don't include the 'XK_' prefix, just use the base, i.e. 'Delete' instead of 'XK_Delete'.''' return globals().get('XK_' + keysym, NoSymbol) def load_keysym_group(group): '''Load all the keysyms in group. Given a group name such as 'latin1' or 'katakana' load the keysyms defined in module 'Xlib.keysymdef.group-name' into this XK module.''' if '.' in group: raise ValueError('invalid keysym group name: %s' % group) G = globals() #Get a reference to XK.__dict__ a.k.a. globals #Import just the keysyms module. mod = __import__('Xlib.keysymdef.%s' % group, G, locals(), [group]) #Extract names of just the keysyms. keysyms = [n for n in dir(mod) if n.startswith('XK_')] #Copy the named keysyms into XK.__dict__ for keysym in keysyms: ## k = mod.__dict__[keysym]; assert k == int(k) #probably too much. G[keysym] = mod.__dict__[keysym] #And get rid of the keysym module. del mod def _load_keysyms_into_XK(mod): '''keysym definition modules need no longer call Xlib.XK._load_keysyms_into_XK(). You should remove any calls to that function from your keysym modules.''' pass # Always import miscellany and latin1 keysyms load_keysym_group('miscellany') load_keysym_group('latin1') def keysym_to_string(keysym): '''Translate a keysym (16 bit number) into a python string. This will pass 0 to 0xff as well as XK_BackSpace, XK_Tab, XK_Clear, XK_Return, XK_Pause, XK_Scroll_Lock, XK_Escape, XK_Delete. For other values it returns None.''' # ISO latin 1, LSB is the code if keysym & 0xff00 == 0: return chr(keysym & 0xff) if keysym in [XK_BackSpace, XK_Tab, XK_Clear, XK_Return, XK_Pause, XK_Scroll_Lock, XK_Escape, XK_Delete]: return chr(keysym & 0xff) # We should be able to do these things quite automatically # for latin2, latin3, etc, in Python 2.0 using the Unicode, # but that will have to wait. return None