keycode
keycode — The internal, frequently numeric, identifier for a key on a keyboard.
Synopsis
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Attributes
Description
The keycode identifies the numeric value
associated with a key on a computer keyboard. This is distinct from any
scan code that it may generate (keycode), or any
symbolic name (keysym) that might exist for the
key.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
Parents
This element occurs in 50 elements.
Children
This element contains 16 elements.
See Also
accel, guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, keycap, keycombo, keysym, menuchoice, mousebutton, shortcut
Examples
1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> 2 <title>Example keycode</title> 4 <para>The <keycap>F1</keycap> key on an IBM PC keyboard generates the scan code <keycode>0x3B</keycode> when pressed. This value 6 is defined as <keysym>KEY_F1</keysym> in <filename class="headerfile">keyboard.h</filename>. 8 </para> 10 </article>
The F1 key on an IBM PC keyboard generates the
scan code 0x3B when pressed. This value
is defined as KEY_F1 in
keyboard.h.