Re: reading keyboard

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

Where are you trying to read the keyboard? It sounds like
key-press-event is what you want. You definitely do not want
#4 (reading from the tty) unless you are designing a
terminal app, which I doubt. It is not clear from your email
exactly what you want to do.

Noah

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at  1:28:03 -0700, Shiraz Baig wrote:
> I am trying to read the keyboard input. I do not 
> want to display the input.But I just want to be 
> able to give it to my application so that 
> I can send it on the network.
> 
> I have used following methods, with no success in 
> any.
> 
> 1)  I have used key_press_event, but it does 
> not give me the key, which has been pressed.
> 
> 2) I have tried to use "entry" type of widget, I 
> can hide the input, but the reading of char is not 
> available, till the control is returned to 
> gtk_main(). So, I cannot use it. Moreover, I am 
> using a text type of widget and not an enry type of 
> widget.
> 
> 3)  I also tried to use "text" type of widget. 
> Again, I cannot read it till the control is returned
>  to gtk_main.
> 
> 4)  I also tried the reading of the file descriptor.
> For example, gtk_input_add (fileno(stdin)........). 
> But it does not get activated.I mean the callback 
> does not get activated when I type something, so I 
> cannot read the key. I also used
>   FILE *input = fopen("/dev/tty", "r") and then 
> fileno(input) to read it. But again no success.
> 
> Request:
>   Could someone pleasegive me a method of reading a 
> key from the keyboard without displaying it anywhere 
> it in any window?
> 
> bye
> shiraz