6 Jul
2014
6 Jul
'14
7:16 p.m.
On Sunday 06 July 2014 09:44:57 Len Ovens wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, Brett McCoy wrote:
VMPK has an option (Edit->Preferences):
[x] Grab Computer Keyboard
If you enable this option, VMPK grabs keyboard events no matter which
application has the focus. It will be temporarily disabled when you minimize
VMPK's main window, and re-enabled when restoring it again. It is also
disabled when you open a dialog.
To do so in X11 applications you only need to invoke the XGrabKeyboard
function: http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man3/XGrabKeyboard.3.html
There may be problems using this function in your program while running other
gtk+ based programs at the same time, because it is used by gtk+ menus as
well.
Regards,
Pedro
You might want to take a look at some previous
implementations of
similar ideas (using console keyboard for MIDI). They use the ALSA
sequencer, I believe
http://vmpk.sourceforge.net/
http://alsa.opensrc.org/Vkeybd
Some of that code will be useful, but both of these run in user space and
use the Xorg keyboard inputs. This means that if I have a synth connected
to virtual kb, as soon as I try to change the synth patch, I loose my
virtual keyboard access because keyboard follows focus to the synth
application (which is what we want almost always). That is why I have to
run as a system user.