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input-remapper/keymapper/reader.py

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#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# key-mapper - GUI for device specific keyboard mappings
# Copyright (C) 2020 sezanzeb <proxima@hip70890b.de>
#
# 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 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
"""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()