Converting Keyboard Codes (Solved)

[RSH]

Hi.

I have a small Script, that is echoing a code, when I'm pressing a key. It uses the following function:

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KEYBOARD="/dev/input/event0"
checkkey() {
	dd if="$KEYBOARD" bs=16 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump | cut -f8 -d ' ' | head -1
}

To call it I do use:

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KEY=$(checkkey)

And it returns the keyboard code.

E.g. for Back-Space: 000e

In another Script I have keyboard code definitions like: 0xff0d (which is Enter or Return). In my mentioned script this returns as: 001c


When I'm just entering 000e I don't get the function working by Back-Space key.

So how can I convert this 001c (for Return/Enter) code to get this form of keyboard code, 0xff0d for the use in a gtkdialog script (GUI)?

Is there a function to do such, or some sort of translation-table anywhere?

Do I have to change anything in the above function, checkkey?

Thanks,

RSH

[Flash]

I have no idea, but the discussion in this thread might give you some ideas.

[RSH]

Ok.

Found it and solved.

Running xev will return the code needed. have used this much earlier, but could not remember xev using.

Thanks to Puppus Dogfellow (PM), so: solved.

RSH

[Flash]

Use of xev was described in this post near the end of the thread I mentioned.

[amigo]

You could also have hexdump show the octal value -or use a similar tool to do so.

[RSH]

Use of xev was described in this post near the end of the thread I mentioned.

Yes, thanks for the links.

As I saw your first post and clicked the link, I just remembered where I got the script from. So I just decided to sent a PM to Puppus Dogfellow instead of reading 3 pages of the thread - which was much faster.

You could also have hexdump show the octal value -or use a similar tool to do so.

I have tried to use option -b (for octal) but this returns a different code each time I pressed back-space key. Option -o returns always an empty string like most of the other options does.

However, xev does the job quite well.

Thanks,

RSH

[amigo]

your hexdump is probably busybox.

[RSH]

your hexdump is probably busybox.

Yes!