[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev46251 - src/kits/shared src/kits/tracker src/apps/webpositive headers/private/shared
- From: Jérôme Duval <korli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:27:48 +0200
2013/10/18 <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> 1d04310: Keymap: Add a method to get modified characters for a key
>
> This method fills out the passed-in BList of modified utf-8 characters for
> a given utf-8 character and set of modifiers.
>
> For example if you pass in "=" and B_SHIFT_KEY the list will get filled
> out with each character in the shift map that has "=" in the normal map.
>
> Each supported keymap modifier combination is available.
>
> The reason this is useful will soon become apparent.
>
> A BList is used because the character might be mapped multiple times,
> for example if you have a Mac keyboard you've got two "=" keys, one in
> 0x1d and one in 0x6a.
>
> The caller is responsible for creating the BList and destroying it as well
> as
> freeing the resulting character strings.
I don't really get why the "=" comes into play here. I would search
for a "+" on a modifier and return the corresponding normal character
to be used on shortcut creation. Please explain.
Bye,
Jérôme
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