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diff --git a/libX11/man/xkb/XkbKeyAction.man b/libX11/man/xkb/XkbKeyAction.man new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e6a2902bd --- /dev/null +++ b/libX11/man/xkb/XkbKeyAction.man @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1999 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a +.\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the +.\" "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including +.\" without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, +.\" distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons +.\" to whom the Software is furnished to do so, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in all copies of +.\" the Software and that both the above copyright notice(s) and this +.\" permission notice appear in supporting documentation. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS +.\" OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT +.\" OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR +.\" HOLDERS INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, OR ANY SPECIAL +.\" INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING +.\" FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, +.\" NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION +.\" WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.\" Except as contained in this notice, the name of a copyright holder +.\" shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use +.\" or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization +.\" of the copyright holder. +.\" +.TH XkbKeyAction __libmansuffix__ __xorgversion__ "XKB FUNCTIONS" +.SH NAME +XkbKeyAction \- Returns the key action +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B XkbAction XkbKeyAction +( +.I xkb, +.I keycode, +.I idx +) +.br + XkbDescPtr \fIxkb\fP\^; +.br + KeyCode \fIkeycode\fP\^; +.br + int \fIidx\fP\^; +.if n .ti +5n +.if t .ti +.5i +.SH ARGUMENTS +.TP +.I \- xkb +Xkb description of interest +.TP +.I \- keycode +keycode of interest +.TP +.I \- idx +index for group and shift level +.SH DESCRIPTION +.LP +A key action defines the effect key presses and releases have on the internal +state of the server. For +example, the expected key action associated with pressing the Shift key is to +set the Shift modifier. +There is zero or one key action associated with each keysym bound to each key. + +Just as the entire list of key symbols for the keyboard mapping is held in the +.I syms +field of the client map, the entire list of key actions for the keyboard mapping +is held in the +.I acts +array of the server map. The total size of +.I acts +is specified by +.I size_acts, +and the number of entries is specified by +.I num_acts. + +The +.I key_acts +array, indexed by keycode, describes the actions associated with a key. The +.I key_acts +array has +.I min_key_code +unused entries at the start to allow direct indexing using a keycode. If a +.I key_acts +entry is zero, it means the key does not have any actions associated with it. If +an entry is not zero, +the entry represents an index into the +.I acts +field of the server map, much as the +.I offset +field of a KeySymMapRec structure is an index into the +.I syms +field of the client map. + +The reason the +.I acts +field is a linear list of XkbActions is to reduce the memory consumption +associated with a keymap. +Because Xkb allows individual keys to have multiple shift levels and a different +number of groups per +key, a single two-dimensional array of KeySyms would potentially be very large +and sparse. Instead, Xkb +provides a small two-dimensional array of XkbActions for each key. To store all +of these individual +arrays, Xkb concatenates each array together in the +.I acts +field of the server map. + +The key action structures consist only of fields of type char or unsigned char. +This is done to +optimize data transfer when the server sends bytes over the wire. If the fields +are anything but bytes, +the server has to sift through all of the actions and swap any nonbyte fields. +Because they consist of +nothing but bytes, it can just copy them out. + +.I XkbKeyAction +returns the key action indexed by +.I idx +in the two-dimensional array of key actions associated with the key +corresponding to +.I keycode.idx +may be computed from the group and shift level of interest as follows: +.nf + + idx = group_index * key_width + shift_level +.fi +.SH STRUCTURES +.LP +The KeySymMapRec structure is defined as follows: +.nf + + #define XkbNumKbdGroups 4 + #define XkbMaxKbdGroup (XkbNumKbdGroups-1) + + typedef struct { /\(** map to keysyms for a single keycode +*/ + unsigned char kt_index[XkbNumKbdGroups]; /\(** key type index for +each group */ + unsigned char group_info; /\(** # of groups and out of range group +handling */ + unsigned char width; /\(** max # of shift levels for key */ + unsigned short offset; /\(** index to keysym table in syms array +*/ +} XkbSymMapRec, *XkbSymMapPtr; + +.fi |