[Lazarus] GTK2: PostMessage(..., LM_CHAR, ...) and IntfUTF8KeyPress(...)

[Žilvinas Ledas]

On 2010-06-30 12:05, Paul Ishenin wrote:
> 30.06.2010 16:18, Žilvinas Ledas wrote:
>
>> Yes, thanks, I understand that. I just was HOPING it will do what I want
>> :) I have some kind of "virtual keyboard" but it is only for my own app
>> (it does send "keys" to 3 TEdit's), so I was hoping such PostMessage()
>> will work as I expect. As it is not - I will manage to go without it.
>
> During the last year I already heard 3 times about virtual keyboards 
> in Lazarus applications. All the 3 times developers are trying to 
> emulate the real keyboard event. There is no cross-platform way to do 
> this in Lazarus. I know some devels found the way to emulate keyboard 
> events in linux but personaly I would probably choose to manage the 
> controls content in the program instead if there are not too much 
> different control types.
>
Ok, thanks for info.
I solved (at least partly now) this issue just as you proposed - I am 
manupulating content directly.

Thanks for your opinion
Žilvinas