#!/usr/bin/python3 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # key-mapper - GUI for device specific keyboard mappings # Copyright (C) 2020 sezanzeb # # This file is part of key-mapper. # # key-mapper is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # key-mapper is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with key-mapper. If not, see . """Keeps reading keycodes in the background for the UI to use.""" import evdev from keymapper.logger import logger from keymapper.getdevices import get_devices class _KeycodeReader: """Keeps reading keycodes in the background for the UI to use. When a button was pressed, the newest keycode can be obtained from this object. GTK has get_keycode for keyboard keys, but KeycodeReader also has knowledge of buttons like the middle-mouse button. """ def __init__(self): self.virtual_devices = [] def clear(self): """Next time when reading don't return the previous keycode.""" # read all of them to clear the buffer or whatever for virtual_device in self.virtual_devices: while virtual_device.read_one(): pass def start_reading(self, device): """Tell the evdev lib to start looking for keycodes. If read is called without prior start_reading, no keycodes will be available. """ paths = get_devices()[device]['paths'] logger.debug( 'Starting reading keycodes for %s on %s', device, ', '.join(paths) ) # Watch over each one of the potentially multiple devices per hardware self.virtual_devices = [ evdev.InputDevice(path) for path in paths ] def read(self): """Get the newest keycode or None if none was pressed.""" newest_keycode = None for virtual_device in self.virtual_devices: while True: event = virtual_device.read_one() if event is None: break logger.spam( 'got code:%s value:%s', event.code + 8, event.value ) if event.type == evdev.ecodes.EV_KEY and event.value == 1: # value: 1 for down, 0 for up, 2 for hold. # this happens to report key codes that are 8 lower # than the ones reported by evtest and used in xkb files newest_keycode = event.code + 8 return newest_keycode keycode_reader = _KeycodeReader()