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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Typing unicode
From:       "John Tapsell" <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-03-02 17:06:46
Message-ID: 43d8ce650603020906w3c6d49b0o9cdde78849981184 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Yeah I haven't quite solved this problem.  At the moment it just
prints "hello!" heh. I was hoping it would be easy to fix :/

On 3/2/06, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 March 2006 16:25, John Tapsell wrote:
> > Since somebody brought up keys...
> >
> > I wrote a patch that let's you do alt-gr + a number to type in a
> > unicode number, like in windows.  If you look on wikipedia for some
> > symbol, it always has how to type it in windows, how to type on the
> > mac, but never how to type in kde :(
>
>  That's #82260.
>
> > So what I did was I hijacked khotkeys.  When you type in alt-gr+number
> > a popup in the top left comes up and shows what you have typed so far.
> >  Then when you have typed the right number of keys, it inserts that
> > character.
> >
> > It's a hack at the moment, and I'm too embarrassed by the code to even
> > show the patch.  But I wanted feedback on whether this was a good way
> > to procede.  Admittedly it would only work in kde etc, but the plus
> > side of that is then we can have the popup come up as you type it (and
> > I plan to have it show a preview of your options).  Should I continue
> > this way, or do it or another way?  Or is it a stupid idea? :)
>
>  The problem there is - how are you going to feed that character to the
> running application? If you add this feature to khotkeys then after khotkeys
> handles the user input and knows it has to enter <some char> to the running
> app, it needs to tell it. Input action in khotkeys simply sends XKeyEvent to
> the active app, but that one only contains keycode and modifiers state. And
> you cannot enter <some obscure unicode char> this way if you can't find the
> keycode and modifiers state for it (and you generally can't, otherwise you'd
> simply type it in normally). So I think this needs at least some code in the
> applications for it.
>
> --
> Lubos Lunak
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