From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-10-13T05:52:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22479] Re: Gtk - convert keyval to descriptive string?


On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Phlip wrote:
> Rubescents:
> Ogle this snip:
>         signal_connect("key_press_event") { |w, e|
>             puts e.keyval  }
> Those keyvals come out as big honkin' numbers, like 65470.
> Is there some facility in gtk.rb, or in gtk+, that can convert these
> numbers to humane strings, such as "F1"? I have seen this ability
> before in other libraries with the letters TK in them.

I don't know about Gtk, but using RubyX11 (version 0.5), you can do:

require "X11/Keysyms"
p X11::KeysymdefReverse[65470]

#==> "F1"

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