[Lazarus] Keyboard info

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Thu Feb 5 11:47:50 CET 2015


Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2015-02-05 09:53, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> How can a program get a general idea of the current keyboard layout,
> 
> 
> Just curious... why would that matter? If I press the key 'o' on a
> QWERTY or Dvorak layout, the OS (and application) treats it the same....
> an 'o' key character is generated.

Because a user might prefer his composite functions such as ⍒ to remain 
in "the right place" on the keyboard rather than following a letter.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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