Re: Why double translation on keydown?

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Shachar Shemesh"  wrote:
> This process seems, to me, overly long and inefficient. It requires
> building fairly complex lookup tables for both vkey and Windows keycode.
> I fail to see what is gained. Why not use the following process instead:
> - An X11 event arrives
> - Use the native keycode as the keycode.
> - Translate the vkey as before.
> - Send WM_(SYS)KEYDOWN as before
> - In X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx:
> - Use the keycode to lookup with key using XLookupString

X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx is a backend of the Win32 API ToUnicodeEx and it takes
a virtual key code. I.e. ToUnicodeEx takes a predefined input and should
return data very closely resembling what Windows does.