[iyonix-support] Re: Correcting Firefox assumptions

> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 Peter Naulls wrote:
>
>>
>>> Firefox doesn't recognize the French keyboard (RISC OS does it well)
>>
>> This isn't a bug report since I don't know what "doesn't recognize"
>> means. Firefox uses entirely legal methods of accessing the keyboard,
>> so I don't care to speculate on what's wrong here, except to say the
>> input code has many layers of code.
>
> Having quickly reviewed the code in ChoX11 - which I didn't write, but
> in fact Alan Buckley did (and without whose work, Firefox would be
> a hopelessly less component port), I can see that it makes some
> unfortunate (but probably neccessary) inkey code translations, which are
> required to present some semblance of the full range of key transitions
> and codes expected by the X layer code - indeed it still doesn't do a
> complete job, and complete information isn't available, ironically,
> without subverting the Wimp's keyboard input. All you can conclude
> is that the RISC OS keyboard input/internationalisation is a rather
> primitive way of doing things in this century.
>
> Fixing this may or may not be trivial. And more likely, if things
> were to be improved in Firefox, there are many more obvious issues,
> and the occasional European user with a non-British keyboard layout
> (and I have US keyboards of course on most of my machines) has to
> be way down the list.
> ---

Peter is correct, when I wrote the keyboard code in ChoX11 it was hard
coded for the British Keyboard layout. As I did it a long time ago, I can
only assume I couldn't find anything appropriate to get the information
I needed for foreign keyboards. I had also been hoping that sooner
or later someone would come up with an open source module which can
give more key press/release details via the wimp so I didn't need to use
inkey at all.

Regards,
Alan

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