Polyglot keyDowns

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sun Dec 15 15:55:17 EST 2013


On 15/12/13 22:48, Richmond wrote:
> On 15/12/13 22:38, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
>> Richmond.
>>
>>
>> Can you give an example of what you are trying to achieve when you 
>> say you want to send a message to a key? It cannot be just this, I 
>> assume:
>>
>>
>> in a button:
>>
>>
>> on mouseUp
>> ask "Choose a Key"
>> keyUp it
>> end mouseUp
>>
>>
>> in the card script:
>>
>>
>> on keyUp var
>>    answer var
>> end keyUp
>>
>>
>> This sends a keyUp message with a key as a parameter. Is that like 
>> sending a message to a key? What is different in what you want to do?
>>
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
>>
>
> I have a virtual keyboard for typing Old Church Slavonic and it will 
> be used by a wide variety of people wit
> English, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Armenian 
> keyboards (among others).
>
> When an end-user lets his/her pointer enter a virtual keyboard button 
> I want the key on the physical
> keyboard to which that is matched to appear in a textField.
>
> So; for the sake of argument, when I pass my mouse over the letter "Ѭ" 
> which I have mapped to the key that yields a rawKey code 112, on my 
> English keyboard 'p' should appear in the textField, while on
> a Bulgarian's machine a 'з' or a 'п' should appear, depending on which 
> keyboard mapping s/he is using.
>
> Richmond.

This should involve sending a keyDown/keyUp signal that corresponds to 
the rawKeyDown/Up code 112;
which varies according to keyboard layout.

Imagine this:

send "keyUp" to rawKey(112)

'twould be lovely.

Richmond.




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