NAME¶
XkbTranslateKeySym - Find the string and symbol associated with a keysym for a
given keyboard state
SYNOPSIS¶
int
XkbTranslateKeySym (Display *dpy, KeySym
*sym_inout, unsigned int mods, char
*buf, int nbytes, int
*extra_rtrn);
ARGUMENTS¶
- - dpy
- connection to X server
- - sym_inout
- symbol to be translated; result of translation
- - mods
- modifiers to apply to sym_inout
- - buf
- buffer into which returned string is written
- - nbytes
- size of buffer in bytes
- - extra_rtrn
- number of bytes overflow
DESCRIPTION¶
XkbTranslateKeySym applies the transformations specified in
mods
to the symbol specified by
sym_inout. It returns in
buf the
string, if any, associated with the keysym for the current locale. If the
transformations in
mods changes the keysym,
sym_inout is updated
accordingly. If the string returned is larger than
nbytes, a count of
bytes that does not fit into the buffer is returned in
extra_rtrn.
XkbTranslateKeySym returns the number of bytes it placed into
buf.
RETURN VALUES¶
- buf
- Returns the string, if any, associated with the keysym for
the current locale.