[haiku] Re: Caps Lock?
- From: Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:54:02 -0800
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:42:25PM -0500, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > However, unless you've seen something that I haven't, I don't think
> > it's possible to suppress CapsLock with a filter.
>
> I guess I wasn't clear when I referred to that ticket. Toward the
> bottom of the ticket is a comment from myself where I suggest a
> theoretical idea for how to solve this. The filter can watch for
> B_MODIFIERS_CHANGED and check the mask for caps lock being on, and if
> it is (and wasn't already on, the state probably needs to be tracked)
> it can use the set_keyboard_locks function to turn it right back off.
> I'm not 100% sure this will work, but it sounds reasonable in theory.
>
Ahh, you did see something I hadn't... I missed the existence of
that global function. You're right, that doesn't look hard.
I'll try that and see how it works.
Thanks,
-- Pete --
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