Programming a virtual midi keyboard

[aidy]

Hi
I want to write an application where you select a keyboard device connected to your computer and then have it generate midi-events -this should work independently of any virtual terminal/X server, so that it'll always work, whatever you're currently doing with the other keyboard.
So is it possible to access the scancodes of a keyboard device without being root? E.g. showkey -s only works while root on my system...

Thanks for the help

[olivier elmekki]

Hi,

I played a bit with the jack API, but most for audio. I heard several times that the best thing to do midi is to use directly the alsa api. Maybe jack midi is a bit better, now.

Here is the alsa sequencer API : http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/seq.html

[aidy]

im not really asking for the midi part, it's the keyboard input part that bothers me