[linux-audio-dev] Re: C++ Keyboard Event Handling

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:21 +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote:
> > as for use ncurses, it works but provides no way to detect raw key
> > presses, only character input. hence, there is no difference in ncurses
> > between a user pressing the tab key or the control key and "i". you also
> > cannot detect key press and release.
> 
> Ah, so that's out of the question...
> 
> > ardour's "ksi" interface has code that handles raw keycodes, even on
> > another machine (network transparent raw keycode transmission, heh). it
> > doesn't interact well with a running instance of X Window, so you can't
> > use it inside a terminal window, but on a text console, its perfect, if
> > i say so myself ;)
> 
> So you are saying the ksi interface could be used in a GTK application,
> or in a console application when there is no X server running?