On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> One snag I've hit is XStringToKeysym. >> >> Is there an equivalent API in the server to do this conversion? > > I haven't checked if there's one added now, but I know our Xsun > pre-xkb keytable parser linked in a copy of the ks_tables.h file > built in the libX11 build and included a static copy of the > XStringToKeysym function to do the lookups in it.
Cool, that's what I thought of a little later. However, bringing XStringToKeysym right in would also mean the Xrm hash table used for the keysymdb. That seemed a little to nasty. Then I thought it might work to construct a static table from XKeysymDB and then dump it into some other lookup structure already in the server. Can the hash table API in dix/resources.c be used, or does that tie into the resources system more deeply. > I wonder if going forward, moving XStringToKeysym into a separate > library, or putting equivalent functionality in something like > libxcb-keysyms wouldn't be a better way, to reduce duplication of > this data/parsing code needed by users of both libX11 & libxcb, > and the Xserver itself. Not a bad idea. Nearly everything I've done so far has introduced duplication from the client side, but I figured I'd try to get it working before moving orthogonally. It's certainly easier to implement everything internally to the server rather than introducing a bunch of external API that might be wrong and can't be removed later. -- Dan _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg