[Lazarus] LCL and custom keyboard layouts

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Wed Feb 1 09:38:02 CET 2012


Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 31 January 2012 11:39, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:>> No. I don't want to simulate a keyboard, I want to be able to pick up an Alt> or Meta shift so that if my keyboard was engraved like> http://www.aplusdev.org/keyboard.html I could get the extra characters into> editing controls as UTF-8.
> I didn't follow this thread in detail, so if I got the wrong end ofthe stick, please ignore this message.
> I use "Programmer Dvorak" layout - which can be applied to any OS andany keyboard - does this for me. No programming required from my side.Programmer Dvorak supports many extra keys via Alt and Meta.
> They original author of Programmer Dvorak supplies drivers or keyboardlayout profiles for Linux, Windows, Mac etc. So maybe you could learnsomething from what he did? Just a thought.
> http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/

Thanks, but there's still the issue there that it would need stuff 
installed outside of the single binary, and it's unclear whether it 
could originate 16-bit characters.

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