Michael, i got an in MultiCompositionScanner.

I can't mail out a bug report, because when doing it, i again get the
same error.

Can i send an image.zip to you, so you can take a look at it?

2009/3/4 Michael Rueger <[email protected]>:
> Rob Rothwell wrote:
>> Long ago when I thought I was going to be writing Operating Systems in
>> Assembly Language, I had a raw keyboard driver interpreting the key
>> codes from various keyboards.
>>
>> TERRIBLE to debug (though not as bad as debugging a display driver).
>>
>> Is that what all this is like?
>>
>> Ugh...
>>
>> Do you use lookup tables for all the various keyboard types and
>> operating systems?
>>
>> It seems like you almost need a matrix of all the supported systems vs.
>> all the possible keyboards, with a table for each one...it could just be
>> a file in the image directory and get loaded at startup.
>>
>> Then, if someone has some weird keyboard, they could just edit the file...
>>
>> But then, I probably have no idea what I'm talking about!!!
>
> Well, at some level that is what the OS is doing. Fortunately the VMs
> can work on a slightly higher level.
> But...
>
> Although all VMs now deliver unicode values in slot 6 of the input
> event, getting composing keyboards and latin1 based shortcut keys to
> work is still tricky. And I still haven't tested all the important
> combinations of OS and keyboard layouts yet.
>
> The Windows VM does a good job delivering composed sequences, you get
> all the intermediate keys (e.g. " and u), but only one keystroke event
> for the composed character.
> The Linux VM however delivers keystrokes for the intermediate keys, so I
> need to figure out, if there is a single key or a composing sequence
> coming up. That's where the ugly hack comes in, peeking for the next
> event etc.
>
> Supporting Latin1 based shortcut keys (x c v cut copy paste etc) is so
> far only tested and probably only there working on Windows. It works by
> looking at the scancode of the key, which is only delivered on the key
> down and up events. Then, in dispatch, I need to look at the unicode
> value delivered, but also at the scan code and if a modifier is pressed.
> The problem is that dispatching of key commands is implemented
> differently all over the system and in no place used the event, but
> simply the character. I refactored it for paragraph editor, but not all
> the other places.
>
> In Sophie we got around that by hacking the Tweak widgets to use
> factored out lookup tables, so there was only one place to deal with that.
> - Show quoted text -
> Michael
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