Re: multikey on Unix

In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:48:54 -0500."
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> To Danton Nunes and everyone else who wonders about dead keys, AltGr, etc:
> I'm currently working on this, and I think I now have a reasonable
> understanding of the problem. Basically, Amaya does some dirty things
> when handling KeyPress events, and falls flat in the presence of the
> XKEYBOARD extension to the X11 protocol. It expects the Mod3 modifier
> key (AltGr on my keyboard) to set the Mod3Mask bit in the event state,
> but XKEYBOARD intercepts this.
> 
> I'm working on a solution which should result in cleaner handling of
> keyboard input at least on platforms (like Linux) with a recent version
> of X11. I'll try not to break things for older versions (which means
> #ifdef'ing the changes). The idea is to take a more "hands-off" approach
> to KeyPress events, letting Xlib functions do all the work of translating
> them. I'll forward my changes to the Amaya core development team once
> I'm happy with them.
> 

That's a great news. We spent such many hours on this problem and we never 
obtained a good solution for each X11 platforms.
Perhaps we need to provide different input methods and let the user choose.

  Irene.

Received on Wednesday, 12 January 2000 08:56:22 UTC