[iyonix-support] Re: Correcting Firefox assumptions

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Keyboard
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> 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.

Some change here would be very much appreciated since I'm not used to
using a UK keyboard (I do have one though since there is one to go
with my IYONIX) but a German one.

Perhaps I could offer the odd suggestion of how to fix this:
1. Use the wimp code to read the keyboard - that one does manage to
   support different language keypresses. But perhaps this is not
   an option since otherwise that might have been done already.
2. Offer some option to include a inkey-translation table and some
   tool to create and include them. I am sure that in order to get the
   input for that table the non-UK users will be glad to help to supply
   it.


-- 
Herbert

Herbert zur Nedden
German Archimedes Group http://www.gag.de

Herausgeber DER deutschen RISC OS-Zeitschrift.

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