From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2005-01-07T02:28:20+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby: Reading keystates

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 01:26:29 +0900, Martin DeMello
<martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How do I read the pressed state of the shift, ctrl etc keys from within
> FXRuby? (And is the correct way to read a Ctrl-A to trap an OnKeypress
> for A and check if Ctrl is pressed?)


def onKeypress(sender, sel, event)
  p "keysym=#{event.code} state=#{event.state} text=#{event.text}"
  if (event.state & CONTROLMASK) != 0
    if event.text == 'a'
       p "we got a"
    end
  end
end



elsewhere you must do

widget.connect(SEL_KEYPRESS, method(:onKeypress))


(untested)

--
Simon Strandgaard