On mar 13 novembre 2007, gerard robin wrote: > On lun 12 novembre 2007, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > I haven't thought much about the whole matter, but here are > > some of my thoughts anyway. :-) > > > > (1) A complete reorganization shouldn't be done before the > > 0.9.11 release, but I don't assume that anyone aimed for > > that. > > > > (2) I'd say that we want to keep the power of XML defined > > bindings (with embedded Nasal where appropriate.) But > > one could think about not having those automatically > > triggered, but read them into a map, and let the > > keys trigger such bindings by name. That way one could > > assign bindings in a dialog. (Personally, I don't like > > this type of configuration at all. It's not nearly > > as flexible as editing the XML file, and one doesn't > > configure the keyboard often, especially if the > > defaults are sane. This is just a lot of bloat and > > complexity for a feature that isn't needed at runtime > > at all.) > > > > (3) I find parts of John's idea nice, but the examples in > > the referenced file are much too complex for my taste. > > Also, I wouldn't like a "language" parser for it done > > in c++. We did a lot of work to get rid of all hardcoded > > stuff, and this would be a step backwards. Nasal is > > fast and powerful enough for this. > > > > I could imagine to allow setting frequencies and some > > other data in this manner. I've today added an interface > > for key events, so that we can play with the idea. Here > > is a simple demo: > > > > http://members.aon.at/mfranz/devel.nas [558 B] > > > > It monitors all key events, passes everything until > > it sees a tilde ~, at which point it grabs all further > > keys, assembles them and displays them in a popup, and on > > <return> prints the string to the console and resumes > > normal mode. > > > > m. > > Some time ago (i must say some years), we where talking about the > difficulties to get an easy use of the keyboard but the ENGLISH one which > is the ONLY one :) > As far i remember, you, Melchior were asking the question, and you got NO > ANSWER. > For instance with the french keyboard acting the right break (<key > n="46">) means to me to operate two keys (dot is an upper case) other keys > are only operating with the Alt-Gr } ] [ { # ~ > I guess this not only a french keyboard problem, any other keyboard do have > probably the same difficulties. > > What about an FG Keyboard mapping conversion from the English one to an > other "NOT English" one. > > Regards
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