[Lazarus] RE : LCL and custom keyboard layouts

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Ludo Brands wrote:
>> I'll start digging in and see where I get to, but any suggestions- 
>> particularly relating to Linux- will be welcome.
>>
> 
> Under X11 you can modify your keyboard to your likings. 4 levels per key are
> standard using Shift and 3 lvl key (Altgr on most non-Eglish kbd but
> configurable to any key). Keys can be defined with their unicode code (Uxxxx
> format).
> A nice howto here:
> http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/Blog/custom-keyboard-in-linuxx11 .
> As usual, locations of the kbd files differ from distribution to
> distribution and even between versions.

Thanks Ludo. I'm already doing a bit of custom stuff to get A+ running 
(arguably the largest free APL that still uses the original characters). 
But the question remains: once inside a Lazarus app, can I hook keycodes 
using a custom procedure, translate them to Unicode, and inject them 
into the currently-focussed edit-capable control?

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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