http://www.purl.org/tcl/home/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/keysyms.htm describes what key symbol values can be used with bind (any other commands?).
[What is a key symbol?]
KeySyms on platforms other than X11 may contain some answers.
Open a wish session and type
bind . <KeyPress> {puts %K}Then press any key or key combination to learn the keysym for your desired key binding.
A Tkinter correspondent:
from Tkinter import *
class Output(Label):
def printkey(self, event):
self.config(text=event.keysym)
root = Tk()
label = Label(root, text='Press a key...')
output = Output(root, takefocus=1)
label.pack()
output.pack()
output.focus()
output.bind('<KeyPress>', output.printkey)
root.mainloop() (Things are apparently so much simpler in Tcl/Tk.)
Is there any way to use accented characters (as used in many European languages) in bindings? I want, for example, Alt-e' (meant to be Alt pressed with an accented e) to be bound to a command. -- CLN 2001-06-11
Peter Lewerin 2001-06-30:
bind . <Alt-Key-eacute> ...
would seem to do what you want, but possibly only if you actually have a ��© key to press. At least for me, characters composed with dead keys don't fire the bindings, but character keys (e.g. adiaeresis on my keyboard) do.
[Distinguish keysyms and key codes.]
Mo Dejong included in the Tk test suite keypress-pertinent code. He advises, "See the following procs in tk/tests/event.test:
_init_keypress_lookup _keypress_lookup _keypress _keypress_string
With these commands you can do the following:
_keypress_string $w HELLO\n
This will generate a keypress for each letter followed by an event for the return key."