Getting X windows keycode from a character in C?

[crazyfuturamanoob]

I know xev, but how can I get Xwindows keycode from character in my C program?
Like getting the keycodes on the fly, while program is running.

Will I have to do the hard way, use xev, and do #define character keycode for each character?

Or is there possibly an easier way to check keycode for a single character?

[nanotube]

I know xev, but how can I get Xwindows keycode from character in my C program?
Like getting the keycodes on the fly, while program is running.

Will I have to do the hard way, use xev, and do #define character keycode for each character?

Or is there possibly an easier way to check keycode for a single character?

you can probably use the xlib library api to convert keycode to character. maybe see here:
http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/input/keyboard-encoding.html

[crazyfuturamanoob]

you can probably use the xlib library api to convert keycode to character. maybe see here:
http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/input/keyboard-encoding.html

No. I want to convert a character to keycode. And without xev, I want to do it on the fly when the program is running.

Like ask a character from user, then get the keycode matching the given character.

[nanotube]

No. I want to convert a character to keycode. And without xev, I want to do it on the fly when the program is running.

Like ask a character from user, then get the keycode matching the given character.

i think you can do character->keycode with xlib just as well as keycode->character.