XkbListComponents(3)		 XKB FUNCTIONS		  XkbListComponents(3)



NAME
       XkbListComponents - List of components for one or more component types

SYNOPSIS
       XkbComponentListPtr   XkbListComponents	(Display  *dpy,	 unsigned  int
	      device_spec, XkbComponentNamesPtr ptrns, int *max_inout);

ARGUMENTS
       - dpy  connection to X server

       - device_spec
	      device ID, or XkbUseCoreKbd

       - ptrns
	      namelist for components of interest

       - max_inout
	      max # returned names, # left over

DESCRIPTION
       You may ask the server for a list of components for one or more	compo-
       nent  types.  The request takes the form of a set of patterns, one pat-
       tern for each of the component types, including a pattern for the  com-
       plete keyboard description. To obtain this list, use XkbListComponents.

       XkbListComponents  queries  the	server	for  a list of component names
       matching the patterns specified in ptrns.  It waits  for	 a  reply  and
       returns	the  matching component names in an XkbComponentListRec struc-
       ture.  When you are done using the structure, you should free it	 using
       XkbFreeComponentList.  device_spec  indicates  a	 particular  device in
       which the caller is interested. A server is allowed (but not  required)
       to restrict its reply to portions of the database that are relevant for
       that particular device.

       ptrns is a pointer to an XkbComponentNamesRec. Each of  the  fields  in
       ptrns contains a pattern naming the components of interest. Each of the
       patterns is composed of characters from the ISO	Latin1	encoding,  but
       can  contain only parentheses, the wildcard characters `?' and `*', and
       characters permitted in a component class or member name. A pattern may
       be NULL, in which case no components for that type is returned. Pattern
       matches with component names are	 case  sensitive.  The	`?'   wildcard
       matches	any  single character, except a left or right parenthesis; the
       `*' wildcard matches any number of characters, except a left  or	 right
       parenthesis.  If	 an  implementation  allows additional characters in a
       component class or member name other than those	required  by  the  Xkb
       extension,  the result of comparing one of the additional characters to
       either of the wildcard characters is implementation-dependent.

       If a pattern contains illegal characters, the  illegal  characters  are
       ignored.	 The matching process is carried out as if the illegal charac-
       ters were omitted from the pattern.

       max_inout is used to throttle the amount of data passed to and from the
       server.	On  input,  it	specifies  the	maximum	 number of names to be
       returned (the total number of names in all component categories).  Upon
       return  from  XkbListComponents, max_inout contains the number of names
       that matched the request but were not returned because of the limit.

       Component Names

       Component names have the form class(member)  where  class  describes  a
       subset  of  the	available  components  for  a  particular type and the
       optional member identifies a specific component from that  subset.  For
       example,	 the name "atlantis(acme)" for a symbols component might spec-
       ify the symbols used for the atlantis national keyboard layout  by  the
       vendor  "acme."	Each class has an optional default member - references
       that specify a class but not a member refer to the  default  member  of
       the  class, if one exists. Xkb places no constraints on the interpreta-
       tion of the class and member names used in component names.

       The class and member names are both specified using characters from the
       Latin-1 character set. Xkb implementations must accept all alphanumeric
       characters, minus (`-') and underscore (`_') in class or member	names,
       and  must  not  accept  parentheses,  plus, vertical bar, percent sign,
       asterisk, question mark, or white space. The use of other characters is
       implementation-dependent.

STRUCTURES
       The  component name patterns used to describe the request are passed to
       XkbListComponents using an XkbComponentNamesRec structure. This	struc-
       ture  has  no special allocation constraints or interrelationships with
       other structures; allocate and free this structure using standard  mal-
       loc and free calls or their equivalent:

	   typedef struct _XkbComponentNames {
	       char *	      keymap;		/* keymap names */
	       char *	      keycodes;		/* keycode names */
	       char *	      types;		/* type names */
	       char *	      compat;		/* compatibility map names */
	       char *	      symbols;		/* symbol names */
	       char *	      geometry;		/* geometry names */
	   } XkbComponentNamesRec, *XkbComponentNamesPtr;

       XkbListComponents returns a pointer to an XkbComponentListRec:

	   typedef struct _XkbComponentList {
	       int			num_keymaps;  /* number of entries in keymap */
	       int			num_keycodes; /* number of entries in keycodes */
	       int			num_types;    /* number of entries in types */
	       int			num_compat;   /* number of entries in compat */
	       int			num_symbols;  /* number of entries in symbols */
	       int			num_geometry; /* number of entries in geometry;
	       XkbComponentNamePtr	keymap;	      /* keymap names */
	       XkbComponentNamePtr	keycodes;     /* keycode names */
	       XkbComponentNamePtr	types;	      /* type names */
	       XkbComponentNamePtr	compat;	      /* compatibility map names */
	       XkbComponentNamePtr	symbols;      /* symbol names */
	       XkbComponentNamePtr	geometry;     /* geometry names */
	   } XkbComponentListRec, *XkbComponentListPtr;

	   typedef struct _XkbComponentName {
	       unsigned short		flags;	      /* hints regarding component name */
	       char *			name;	      /* name of component */
	   } XkbComponentNameRec, *XkbComponentNamePtr;


SEE ALSO
       XkbFreeComponentList(3)

NOTES
       Note that the structure used to specify patterns on input is an XkbCom-
       ponentNamesRec, and that used to hold the  individual  component	 names
       upon return is an XkbComponentNameRec (no trailing `s' in Name).



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