Module Keyboard

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Defines a class representing a standard Keyboard input device and action code constants used to register filters on that device.

Authors:: Peter Parente, Scott Haeger, Frank Zenker

Organizations:

IBM Corporation
IT Science Center Ruegen gGmbH, Germany

Copyright:

License: The BSD License All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the BSD license which accompanies this distribution, and is available at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

Classes

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Keyboard
Basic keyboard input device.

Functions

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string

_keyCodeToKeyName(code)
Gets the name of the given key code by using the default key map to lookup its keysym value and then its localized name.

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Variables

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DEBUG = False

gtk.gdk.Keymap def_keymap = gdk.keymap_get_default()
Default keymap for translation between key codes, keysyms, and key names

integer MAX_KEY_CHORD = 4
Maximum number of actions that can be in a keyboard gesture

__uie__ = dict(kind= 'device')

Function Details

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_keyCodeToKeyName(code)

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Gets the name of the given key code by using the default key map to lookup its keysym value and then its localized name. If the code is not known, an empty string is returned.

Parameters:

code (integer) - Hardware keycode

Returns: string

Name of the key