Re: XForms: Special characters!!

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Mon, 14 Dec 98 04:58:41 PST

# To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> Speaking about compose key: is there some level of support for compose
> key or input methods in xforms? At first sight I would say no, but I'd
> rather ask.

Not as such. I think you'd have to go down to the level of Xlib
programming to accomplish anything useful.

> Second question: is there a way to implement that in an application
> via callbacks?

If the key generates a KeyPress/KeyRelease event, then you should be
able to handle it with standard event handling callbacks. Checking my
keyboard and server with `xev', it seems as if the Compose key
generates a KeyPress/KeyRelease event returning the XK_Multi_key
KeySym, so it could be used.

spl
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