2008-10-16 18:01:09 UTC
Sorry for the flood but I've got news once again. :p
1) The keys that one needs to press multiple times are called "dead keys".
2) SendKeys failed at GetKeycodeFromKeysym where XKeysymToKeycode returned 0, since there is no single keycode for ^ in the Finnish/Swedish layout.
Earlier in the code, keysym was set to 94 form the pre-set table since XStringToKeysym returned "NoSymbol". However, in the Finnish/Swedish layout, keycode 94 is <. I don't know why XKeysymToKeycode didn't return that one instead of 0, though.
Writing a patch for this turned out to be harder than I originally thought, especially when I have *very* little experience with Xlib from before, so I had to settle on a workaround that I found. The following code produces a single carot in the Finnish/Swedish layout:
PressKey('LSH');
PressReleaseKey('dead_circumflex');
PressReleaseKey('dead_circumflex');
ReleaseKey('LSH');
I'd really appreciate if somebody could write a patch to implement the dead keys in X11::GUITest, but until then I have to settle with the workaround.
Cheers,
Joeli
