0.0.6 • Published 13 years ago
keysym v0.0.6
Keysym
This library converts among X11 keysyms, unicodes, and string names in node.js.
Why would anybody want to do that? Why indeed, dear reader. Why indeed.
Methods
- fromKeysym - look up a record from an integral keysym
- fromUnicode - look up a record from its integral unicode position
- fromName - look up a record by name
You can also get at all the records at require('keysym').records
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Record Format
Records are just hashes with fields: keysym, unicode, status, ane name. These fields come directly from keysyms.txt, except keysym and unicode are converted from hexadecimal strings to integers.
Example
Look up keysym records from a unicode position
var ks = require('keysym');
console.dir(ks.fromUnicode(8))
Output: [ { keysym: 65288 , unicode: 8 , status: 'f' , names: 'BackSpace' } ]
Installation
To install with npm:
npm install keysym
To run the tests with expresso:
expresso
Credits
This module is basically just a thin wrapper around a public domain keysym dataset compiled by Markus G. Kuhn.
Specifically, it's from this file.