NAME

       XkbResizeKeyActions - Change the number of actions bound to a key

SYNOPSIS

       XkbAction * XkbResizeKeyActions (XkbDescRec *xkb, int key, int needed);

ARGUMENTS

       xkb    keyboard description to change

       key    keycode of key to change

       needed new number of actions required

DESCRIPTION

       The  xkb  parameter  points to the keyboard description containing the key whose number of
       actions is to be changed. The key parameter is the keycode  of  the  key  to  change,  and
       needed specifies the new number of actions required for the key.

       XkbResizeKeyActions reserves the space needed for the actions and returns a pointer to the
       beginning of the new array that holds the actions. It can change the acts,  num_acts,  and
       size_acts fields of xkb->server if it is necessary to reallocate the acts array.

       If  needed  is greater than the current number of keysyms for the key, XkbResizeKeyActions
       initializes all new actions in the array to NoAction.

       Because the number of actions needed by a key is normally computed as width  *  number  of
       groups,  and  XkbResizeKeyActions does not modify either the width or number of groups for
       the key, a discrepancy  exists  on  return  from  XkbResizeKeyActions  between  the  space
       allocated  for  the  actions  and  the  number required. The unused entries in the list of
       actions returned by XkbResizeKeyActions are not preserved across future calls  to  any  of
       the map editing functions, so you must update the key actions (which updates the width and
       number of groups for the key)  before  calling  another  allocator  function.  A  call  to
       XkbChangeTypesOfKey updates these.

       If  any  allocation  errors  occur  while resizing the number of actions bound to the key,
       XkbResizeKeyActions returns NULL.

SEE ALSO

       XkbChangeTypesOfKey(3), XkbResizeKeySyms(3)

NOTES

       A change to the number of actions bound to a key should be accompanied by a change in  the
       number  of  symbols  bound  to  a  key.  Refer to XkbResizeKeySyms for more information on
       changing the number of symbols bound to a key.