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Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> Here's my Crazy Idea Of The Day:
>
> The question was asked a few times, whether there are keys
> reserved for local customization purposes. There are none.
> But we have some completely unused shift levels. The X window
>
* Stuart Buchanan -- Sunday 02 December 2007:
> However, I expect that a lot of people won't have the
> skills required to include such Nasal code themselves.
Not so quick! This is just a contribution to the discussion
about keyboard reorganization. Something to think about, and
to play with. Not
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 02 December 2007:
> Tadaaa: The TAB modifier! :-)
D'oh! I had tried it with +500, and just to make it prettier I
changed it to 1000 before posting. And that crashes, because
input.cxx sets MAX_KEYS = 1024. So we are back at 500, which
is good enough.
New version attac
--- Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> Here's my Crazy Idea Of The Day:
> What we could do, though, is to "invent" a new modifier level
> for local use. One that works everywhere. By just redefining
> a key that is bigger than the others and easy to hit, just
> like the other modifiers ... umm ... except a
Here's my Crazy Idea Of The Day:
The question was asked a few times, whether there are keys
reserved for local customization purposes. There are none.
But we have some completely unused shift levels. The X window
system supports 8 modifiers (usually called shift, ctrl, alt,
capslock, meta, super,
* Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 01 December 2007:
> Because not all operating systems, all keyboards, and all
> setups support these modifiers, they must *not* be used in
> files committed to CVS. (That's why I didn't bother to add
> / XML tags.)
Now I *did* bother (but it's still recommended not to
It's now possible to query Meta & Super modifier keys:
SDL ... Meta & Super supported
OSG ... only Meta supported (would be easy to fix in OSG)
GLUT ... no support, as usual :-}
These modifier keys are set in keyboard events
(/devices/status/keyboard/events/modifiers/{meta,super}) and
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