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# Xlib.XK -- X keysym defs
#
#    Copyright (C) 2000 Peter Liljenberg <petli@ctrl-c.liu.se>
#
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#
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#    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
#
# This module defines some functions for working with X keysyms as well
# as a modular keysym definition and loading mechanism. See the keysym
# definition modules in the Xlib/keysymdef directory.

from Xlib.X import NoSymbol

def string_to_keysym(keysym):
    '''Return the (16 bit) numeric code of keysym.

    Given the name of a keysym as a string, return its numeric code.
    Don't include the 'XK_' prefix, just use the base, i.e. 'Delete'
    instead of 'XK_Delete'.'''
    return globals().get('XK_' + keysym, NoSymbol)

def load_keysym_group(group):
    '''Load all the keysyms in group.

    Given a group name such as 'latin1' or 'katakana' load the keysyms
    defined in module 'Xlib.keysymdef.group-name' into this XK module.'''
    if '.' in group:
        raise ValueError('invalid keysym group name: %s' % group)

    G = globals() #Get a reference to XK.__dict__ a.k.a. globals

    #Import just the keysyms module.
    mod = __import__('Xlib.keysymdef.%s' % group, G, locals(), [group])

    #Extract names of just the keysyms.
    keysyms = [n for n in dir(mod) if n.startswith('XK_')]

    #Copy the named keysyms into XK.__dict__
    for keysym in keysyms:
        ## k = mod.__dict__[keysym]; assert k == int(k) #probably too much.
        G[keysym] = mod.__dict__[keysym]

    #And get rid of the keysym module.
    del mod

def _load_keysyms_into_XK(mod):
    '''keysym definition modules need no longer call Xlib.XK._load_keysyms_into_XK().
    You should remove any calls to that function from your keysym modules.'''
    pass

# Always import miscellany and latin1 keysyms
load_keysym_group('miscellany')
load_keysym_group('latin1')


def keysym_to_string(keysym):
    '''Translate a keysym (16 bit number) into a python string.

    This will pass 0 to 0xff as well as XK_BackSpace, XK_Tab, XK_Clear,
    XK_Return, XK_Pause, XK_Scroll_Lock, XK_Escape, XK_Delete. For other
    values it returns None.'''

    # ISO latin 1, LSB is the code
    if keysym & 0xff00 == 0:
        return chr(keysym & 0xff)

    if keysym in [XK_BackSpace, XK_Tab, XK_Clear, XK_Return,
                  XK_Pause, XK_Scroll_Lock, XK_Escape, XK_Delete]:
        return chr(keysym & 0xff)

    # We should be able to do these things quite automatically
    # for latin2, latin3, etc, in Python 2.0 using the Unicode,
    # but that will have to wait.

    return None