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Re: keyboard events

To: Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>
Subject: Re: keyboard events
From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:47:06 +0000
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In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org> of "Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:36:06 PST." <20010314133606.A8912@dirac.org>
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Hi Peter,

> i have a small project in mind.  xvoice is an application that uses
> IBM's speech recognition API.  currently, it uses "synthetic events"
> to send information to X applications.  this is how X gets gets
> "words" from your speech.  many applications don't like synthetic
> events since they're considered a security risk.

Off-topic from your question.  Another alternative is to write an X
server extension that accepts a synthetic event and sends it to the
indicated client without the `synthentic' flag set.

There are probably already extensions that do this, especially for
testing of X clients.


Ralph.

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