Re: [LINUX5250] xt5250, x5250, fonts

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Sean Porterfield wrote:

> > Tell me what mapping you would like and I'll add it for you.
>
> OK, I thought I could do it...  I got all of my other changes to work just 
> fine, but I can't get the cent sign to come out.
>
> I figure the key I want is XK_bracketleft but I'm not sure how to output a 
> character.  If I key the cent sign (copy/paste) I get
>  warning: multi-character character constant
>
> I thought maybe I could return XK_cent, but that didn't work either.

This doesn't work because keyhandler() returns an int, and XK_* are 
keysyms.  Not only that, but I'm pretty sure there is no keysym called 
XK_cent (I'll double check this when I get home to my X books).  What the 
keyhandler() function does is find out what key was pressed and return the 
corresponding lib5250 key.  The lib5250 keys are defined in terminal.h. 
Looking through that reveals there is no key for the cent sign.  The keys 
listed there start with K_ and are followed by a hex sequence.  Perhaps we 
need a K_CENT here?  x5250's key handling can only work with the 
definitions listed here.

> Just in case anyone else likes my keymapping (and for me if I delete my file 
> by mistake!)

Once I get x5250 version 0.5 out the door (soon!) I'll start working on a 
hopefully simple keymapping feature.  Preferably one that won't involve 
changing the source code!

James Rich

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