get text strings from keyboard

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3 total messages Started by Xiaoyi Wu Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:55

#24889

Author: Xiaoyi Wu
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:55

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Hi, I am a newbie in X programming (X lib right now, no motif) and need 
some help on this:

I need to get a few numbers from the user in a window, is there a 
function available for that purpose? what i am doing now is use KeyPress 
mask to detect keyboard inputs, and i think i must be missing somehting 
here since although XLookupString claims to fill a string buffer i am 
only getting ONE character at a time.

the portion of code looks like this:

	    case KeyPress: 
	      res = XLookupString(&myevent,text,100,&mykey,0); 
	      printf("res=%d, text=%s\n",res,text); 
	      break; 


thanks for any help.

Xiaoyi

Re: get text strings from keyboard

#24890

Author: Ken Lee
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 18:39

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In article <Pine.SGI.3.91.960222115042.25886A-100000@mozart.bme.ohio-state.edu>,
xiaoyi@mozart.bme.ohio-state.edu (Xiaoyi Wu) writes:
|> what i am doing now is use KeyPress 
|> mask to detect keyboard inputs, and i think i must be missing somehting 
|> here since although XLookupString claims to fill a string buffer i am 
|> only getting ONE character at a time.

I think you need to re-read your Xlib manual.  KeyPress events normally
contain only one character at a time.

-- 
Ken Lee, X/Motif Consulting, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/index.shtml

Re: get text strings from keyboard

#24891

Author: Xiaoyi Wu
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 19:07

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Ken Lee wrote:
> 
> In article <Pine.SGI.3.91.960222115042.25886A-100000@mozart.bme.ohio-state.edu>,
> xiaoyi@mozart.bme.ohio-state.edu (Xiaoyi Wu) writes:
> |> what i am doing now is use KeyPress
> |> mask to detect keyboard inputs, and i think i must be missing somehting
> |> here since although XLookupString claims to fill a string buffer i am
> |> only getting ONE character at a time.
> 
> I think you need to re-read your Xlib manual.  KeyPress events normally
> contain only one character at a time.
> 
> --
> Ken Lee, X/Motif Consulting, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/index.shtml

yeah i got it. thanks.

-- 
Xiaoyi

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