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moritz

22 Mar 2007 22 Mar '07

2:28 a.m.

ola

im playing around with x11key.

how can i simulate some special keys/ commands like space, tab, delete, control a, control c/v, control s, etc... with x11key?

i want to make my X very organic :)

thanx

mORitz

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Alexandre Quessy

22 Mar 22 Mar

7:47 a.m.

Hi Moritz, Eh ! Nice. Someone playing with my little X11 externals. :)

Yes, you can simulate any key press... even control keys and such. You can see the list of the keys you can generate in the file /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h You need to send it only the part after the "XK_".

Here I paste some of the most useful possibilities.

-- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net /* * Latin 1 * (ISO/IEC 8859-1 = Unicode U+0020..U+00FF) * Byte 3 = 0 */ #ifdef XK_LATIN1 #define XK_space 0x0020 /* U+0020 SPACE */ #define XK_exclam 0x0021 /* U+0021 EXCLAMATION MARK */ #define XK_quotedbl 0x0022 /* U+0022 QUOTATION MARK */ #define XK_numbersign 0x0023 /* U+0023 NUMBER SIGN */ #define XK_dollar 0x0024 /* U+0024 DOLLAR SIGN */ #define XK_percent 0x0025 /* U+0025 PERCENT SIGN */ #define XK_ampersand 0x0026 /* U+0026 AMPERSAND */ #define XK_apostrophe 0x0027 /* U+0027 APOSTROPHE */ #define XK_quoteright 0x0027 /* deprecated */ #define XK_parenleft 0x0028 /* U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS */ #define XK_parenright 0x0029 /* U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS */ #define XK_asterisk 0x002a /* U+002A ASTERISK */ #define XK_plus 0x002b /* U+002B PLUS SIGN */ #define XK_comma 0x002c /* U+002C COMMA */ #define XK_minus 0x002d /* U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS */ #define XK_period 0x002e /* U+002E FULL STOP */ #define XK_slash 0x002f /* U+002F SOLIDUS */ #define XK_0 0x0030 /* U+0030 DIGIT ZERO */ #define XK_1 0x0031 /* U+0031 DIGIT ONE */ #define XK_2 0x0032 /* U+0032 DIGIT TWO */ #define XK_3 0x0033 /* U+0033 DIGIT THREE */ #define XK_4 0x0034 /* U+0034 DIGIT FOUR */ #define XK_5 0x0035 /* U+0035 DIGIT FIVE */ #define XK_6 0x0036 /* U+0036 DIGIT SIX */ #define XK_7 0x0037 /* U+0037 DIGIT SEVEN */ #define XK_8 0x0038 /* U+0038 DIGIT EIGHT */ #define XK_9 0x0039 /* U+0039 DIGIT NINE */ #define XK_colon 0x003a /* U+003A COLON */ #define XK_semicolon 0x003b /* U+003B SEMICOLON */ #define XK_less 0x003c /* U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN */ #define XK_equal 0x003d /* U+003D EQUALS SIGN */ #define XK_greater 0x003e /* U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN */ #define XK_question 0x003f /* U+003F QUESTION MARK */ #define XK_at 0x0040 /* U+0040 COMMERCIAL AT */ #define XK_A 0x0041 /* U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A */ #define XK_B 0x0042 /* U+0042 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B */ #define XK_C 0x0043 /* U+0043 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C */ #define XK_D 0x0044 /* U+0044 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D */ #define XK_E 0x0045 /* U+0045 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E */ #define XK_F 0x0046 /* U+0046 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F */ #define XK_G 0x0047 /* U+0047 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G */ #define XK_H 0x0048 /* U+0048 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H */ #define XK_I 0x0049 /* U+0049 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I */ #define XK_J 0x004a /* U+004A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J */ #define XK_K 0x004b /* U+004B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K */ #define XK_L 0x004c /* U+004C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L */ #define XK_M 0x004d /* U+004D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M */ #define XK_N 0x004e /* U+004E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N */ #define XK_O 0x004f /* U+004F LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O */ #define XK_P 0x0050 /* U+0050 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P */ #define XK_Q 0x0051 /* U+0051 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q */ #define XK_R 0x0052 /* U+0052 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R */ #define XK_S 0x0053 /* U+0053 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S */ #define XK_T 0x0054 /* U+0054 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T */ #define XK_U 0x0055 /* U+0055 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U */ #define XK_V 0x0056 /* U+0056 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V */ #define XK_W 0x0057 /* U+0057 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W */ #define XK_X 0x0058 /* U+0058 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X */ #define XK_Y 0x0059 /* U+0059 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y */ #define XK_Z 0x005a /* U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z */ #define XK_bracketleft 0x005b /* U+005B LEFT SQUARE BRACKET */ #define XK_backslash 0x005c /* U+005C REVERSE SOLIDUS */ #define XK_bracketright 0x005d /* U+005D RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET */ #define XK_asciicircum 0x005e /* U+005E CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT */ #define XK_underscore 0x005f /* U+005F LOW LINE */ #define XK_grave 0x0060 /* U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT */ #define XK_quoteleft 0x0060 /* deprecated */ #define XK_a 0x0061 /* U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A */ #define XK_b 0x0062 /* U+0062 LATIN SMALL LETTER B */ #define XK_c 0x0063 /* U+0063 LATIN SMALL LETTER C */ #define XK_d 0x0064 /* U+0064 LATIN SMALL LETTER D */ #define XK_e 0x0065 /* U+0065 LATIN SMALL LETTER E */ #define XK_f 0x0066 /* U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F */ #define XK_g 0x0067 /* U+0067 LATIN SMALL LETTER G */ #define XK_h 0x0068 /* U+0068 LATIN SMALL LETTER H */ #define XK_i 0x0069 /* U+0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I */ #define XK_j 0x006a /* U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J */ #define XK_k 0x006b /* U+006B LATIN SMALL LETTER K */ #define XK_l 0x006c /* U+006C LATIN SMALL LETTER L */ #define XK_m 0x006d /* U+006D LATIN SMALL LETTER M */ #define XK_n 0x006e /* U+006E LATIN SMALL LETTER N */ #define XK_o 0x006f /* U+006F LATIN SMALL LETTER O */ #define XK_p 0x0070 /* U+0070 LATIN SMALL LETTER P */ #define XK_q 0x0071 /* U+0071 LATIN SMALL LETTER Q */ #define XK_r 0x0072 /* U+0072 LATIN SMALL LETTER R */ #define XK_s 0x0073 /* U+0073 LATIN SMALL LETTER S */ #define XK_t 0x0074 /* U+0074 LATIN SMALL LETTER T */ #define XK_u 0x0075 /* U+0075 LATIN SMALL LETTER U */ #define XK_v 0x0076 /* U+0076 LATIN SMALL LETTER V */ #define XK_w 0x0077 /* U+0077 LATIN SMALL LETTER W */ #define XK_x 0x0078 /* U+0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER X */ #define XK_y 0x0079 /* U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y */ #define XK_z 0x007a /* U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z */ #define XK_braceleft 0x007b /* U+007B LEFT CURLY BRACKET */ #define XK_bar 0x007c /* U+007C VERTICAL LINE */ #define XK_braceright 0x007d /* U+007D RIGHT CURLY BRACKET */ #define XK_asciitilde 0x007e /* U+007E TILDE */ #define XK_nobreakspace 0x00a0 /* U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE */ #define XK_exclamdown 0x00a1 /* U+00A1 INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK */ #define XK_cent 0x00a2 /* U+00A2 CENT SIGN */ #define XK_sterling 0x00a3 /* U+00A3 POUND SIGN */ #define XK_currency 0x00a4 /* U+00A4 CURRENCY SIGN */ #define XK_yen 0x00a5 /* U+00A5 YEN SIGN */ #define XK_brokenbar 0x00a6 /* U+00A6 BROKEN BAR */ #define XK_section 0x00a7 /* U+00A7 SECTION SIGN */ #define XK_diaeresis 0x00a8 /* U+00A8 DIAERESIS */ #define XK_copyright 0x00a9 /* U+00A9 COPYRIGHT SIGN */ #define XK_ordfeminine 0x00aa /* U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR */ #define XK_guillemotleft 0x00ab /* U+00AB LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK */ #define XK_notsign 0x00ac /* U+00AC NOT SIGN */ #define XK_hyphen 0x00ad /* U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN */ #define XK_registered 0x00ae /* U+00AE REGISTERED SIGN */ #define XK_macron 0x00af /* U+00AF MACRON */ #define XK_degree 0x00b0 /* U+00B0 DEGREE SIGN */ #define XK_plusminus 0x00b1 /* U+00B1 PLUS-MINUS SIGN */ #define XK_twosuperior 0x00b2 /* U+00B2 SUPERSCRIPT TWO */ #define XK_threesuperior 0x00b3 /* U+00B3 SUPERSCRIPT THREE */ #define XK_acute 0x00b4 /* U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT */ #define XK_mu 0x00b5 /* U+00B5 MICRO SIGN */ #define XK_paragraph 0x00b6 /* U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN */ #define XK_periodcentered 0x00b7 /* U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT */ #define XK_cedilla 0x00b8 /* U+00B8 CEDILLA */ #define XK_onesuperior 0x00b9 /* U+00B9 SUPERSCRIPT ONE */ #define XK_masculine 0x00ba /* U+00BA MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR */ #define XK_guillemotright 0x00bb /* U+00BB RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK */ #define XK_onequarter 0x00bc /* U+00BC VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER */ #define XK_onehalf 0x00bd /* U+00BD VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF */ #define XK_threequarters 0x00be /* U+00BE VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS */ #define XK_questiondown 0x00bf /* U+00BF INVERTED QUESTION MARK */ #define XK_Agrave 0x00c0 /* U+00C0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE */ #define XK_Aacute 0x00c1 /* U+00C1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE */ #define XK_Acircumflex 0x00c2 /* U+00C2 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX */ #define XK_Atilde 0x00c3 /* U+00C3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE */ #define XK_Adiaeresis 0x00c4 /* U+00C4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS */ #define XK_Aring 0x00c5 /* U+00C5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE */ #define XK_AE 0x00c6 /* U+00C6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE */ #define XK_Ccedilla 0x00c7 /* U+00C7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA */ #define XK_Egrave 0x00c8 /* U+00C8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE */ #define XK_Eacute 0x00c9 /* U+00C9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE */ #define XK_Ecircumflex 0x00ca /* U+00CA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX */ #define XK_Ediaeresis 0x00cb /* U+00CB LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS */ #define XK_Igrave 0x00cc /* U+00CC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE */ #define XK_Iacute 0x00cd /* U+00CD LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE */ #define XK_Icircumflex 0x00ce /* U+00CE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX */ #define XK_Idiaeresis 0x00cf /* U+00CF LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS */ #define XK_ETH 0x00d0 /* U+00D0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH */ #define XK_Eth 0x00d0 /* deprecated */ #define XK_Ntilde 0x00d1 /* U+00D1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE */ #define XK_Ograve 0x00d2 /* U+00D2 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE */ #define XK_Oacute 0x00d3 /* U+00D3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE */ #define XK_Ocircumflex 0x00d4 /* U+00D4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX */ #define XK_Otilde 0x00d5 /* U+00D5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE */ #define XK_Odiaeresis 0x00d6 /* U+00D6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS */ #define XK_multiply 0x00d7 /* U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN */ #define XK_Oslash 0x00d8 /* U+00D8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE */ #define XK_Ooblique 0x00d8 /* U+00D8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE */ #define XK_Ugrave 0x00d9 /* U+00D9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE */ #define XK_Uacute 0x00da /* U+00DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE */ #define XK_Ucircumflex 0x00db /* U+00DB LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX */ #define XK_Udiaeresis 0x00dc /* U+00DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS */ #define XK_Yacute 0x00dd /* U+00DD LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE */ #define XK_THORN 0x00de /* U+00DE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN */ #define XK_Thorn 0x00de /* deprecated */ #define XK_ssharp 0x00df /* U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S */ #define XK_agrave 0x00e0 /* U+00E0 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE */ #define XK_aacute 0x00e1 /* U+00E1 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE */ #define XK_acircumflex 0x00e2 /* U+00E2 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX */ #define XK_atilde 0x00e3 /* U+00E3 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE */ #define XK_adiaeresis 0x00e4 /* U+00E4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS */ #define XK_aring 0x00e5 /* U+00E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE */ #define XK_ae 0x00e6 /* U+00E6 LATIN SMALL LETTER AE */ #define XK_ccedilla 0x00e7 /* U+00E7 LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA */ #define XK_egrave 0x00e8 /* U+00E8 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE */ #define XK_eacute 0x00e9 /* U+00E9 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE */ #define XK_ecircumflex 0x00ea /* U+00EA LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX */ #define XK_ediaeresis 0x00eb /* U+00EB LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS */ #define XK_igrave 0x00ec /* U+00EC LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE */ #define XK_iacute 0x00ed /* U+00ED LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE */ #define XK_icircumflex 0x00ee /* U+00EE LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX */ #define XK_idiaeresis 0x00ef /* U+00EF LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS */ #define XK_eth 0x00f0 /* U+00F0 LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH */ #define XK_ntilde 0x00f1 /* U+00F1 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE */ #define XK_ograve 0x00f2 /* U+00F2 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE */ #define XK_oacute 0x00f3 /* U+00F3 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE */ #define XK_ocircumflex 0x00f4 /* U+00F4 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX */ #define XK_otilde 0x00f5 /* U+00F5 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE */ #define XK_odiaeresis 0x00f6 /* U+00F6 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS */ #define XK_division 0x00f7 /* U+00F7 DIVISION SIGN */ #define XK_oslash 0x00f8 /* U+00F8 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE */ #define XK_ooblique 0x00f8 /* U+00F8 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE */ #define XK_ugrave 0x00f9 /* U+00F9 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE */ #define XK_uacute 0x00fa /* U+00FA LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE */ #define XK_ucircumflex 0x00fb /* U+00FB LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX */ #define XK_udiaeresis 0x00fc /* U+00FC LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS */ #define XK_yacute 0x00fd /* U+00FD LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE */ #define XK_thorn 0x00fe /* U+00FE LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN */ #define XK_ydiaeresis 0x00ff /* U+00FF LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS */ #endif /* XK_LATIN1 */ 2007/3/21, moritz erstens@gmx.ch: > ola > > im playing around with x11key. > > how can i simulate some special keys/ commands like space, tab, delete, > control a, control c/v, control s, etc... with x11key? > > i want to make my X very organic :) > > thanx > > mORitz > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >

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moritz

4:32 p.m.

Alexandre Quessy wrote:

Hi Moritz, Eh ! Nice. Someone playing with my little X11 externals. :)

ola

Yes, thank you very much for this externals!

Yes, you can simulate any key press... even control keys and such. You can see the list of the keys you can generate in the file /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h You need to send it only the part after the "XK_".

Here I paste some of the most useful possibilities.

i could found every key/special-key in keysymdef.h, but how can i combine some keys, like "control+s" for save, or "control+a" for all, etc.. ? i hope this is possible.

thanx!

Moritz

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Alexandre Quessy

23 Mar 23 Mar

5:37 a.m.

Hi again,

2007/3/22, moritz erstens@gmx.ch:

i could found every key/special-key in keysymdef.h, but how can i combine some keys, like "control+s" for save, or "control+a" for all, etc.. ? i hope this is possible.

I remember this was possible in my C tests, but I found some difficulties when I implemented it in this pd external. Unfortunately, I cannot find the xlib-test Ubuntu package : maybe I would need to add more repositories, I forget. I was on Debian when I wrote that one. Which distro are you using ? Maybe I should install it manually. Maybe I could try to implement this within a few days. Key combinations are some of the main interests in writing this kind of externals.

-- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net

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Alexandre Quessy

6:21 a.m.

Hi. It's me again. :)

Finally, I got it to compile. Don't know why the headers are now present. Maybe they put it in some other packages. Anyways. Want you want was already possible. I modified the help file to show how to do it. (a simple Control-A that selects all in Pd) I also added a little list of which keyname symbols you can send it. See externals/aalex/x11key-help.pd in the Pd CVS.

Have fun ! (disclaimer of all warranties ;-) )

aalex

2007/3/23, Alexandre Quessy listes@sourcelibre.com:

Hi again,

2007/3/22, moritz erstens@gmx.ch:

...
i could found every key/special-key in keysymdef.h, but how can i combine some keys, like "control+s" for save, or "control+a" for all, etc.. ? i hope this is possible.

I remember this was possible in my C tests, but I found some difficulties when I implemented it in this pd external. Unfortunately, I cannot find the xlib-test Ubuntu package : maybe I would need to add more repositories, I forget. I was on Debian when I wrote that one. Which distro are you using ? Maybe I should install it manually. Maybe I could try to implement this within a few days. Key combinations are some of the main interests in writing this kind of externals.

-- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net

-- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net

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moritz

12:55 p.m.

Alexandre Quessy wrote:

Hi. It's me again. :)

Finally, I got it to compile. Don't know why the headers are now present. Maybe they put it in some other packages. Anyways. Want you want was already possible. I modified the help file to show how to do it. (a simple Control-A that selects all in Pd) I also added a little list of which keyname symbols you can send it. See externals/aalex/x11key-help.pd in the Pd CVS.

Have fun ! (disclaimer of all warranties ;-) )

aalex

wow! that is exactly what i want..

now my X will go crazy! :)

thanx

moriTZ

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