SOK

[Chris Jones]

I'm using a very nice c library called fakekey, which is part of the
matchbox project to handle the input.  I wrapped that up with SWIG.

Wrt to the focus, clicking a key on the keyboard currently switches
focus to the keyboard.  Rendering the whole thing useless.  I'm hoping
there is an easy fix for this.


On 26/05/06, Sven Jaborek <sven-tek at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> iam interested in how the focus switching and input redirection work.
> Can this be read from your source, if so, can i have it?
>
> regards, Sven
>
> Am Freitag, den 26.05.2006, 14:11 +0100 schrieb Chris Jones:
> > I don't think cairo could be trusted to render an SVG in the same way
> > as inkscape.  It's a good idea though and it would be worth having the
> > xml layout file svg-like.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 26/05/06, Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > Chris Jones wrote:
> > > > I'm just posting an update on the progress of the
> > > > simple-onscreen-keyboard.
> > > >
> > > > I have nearly reached the first milestone.  Entry into other windows
> > > > is possible, and a three key keyboard is rendered in cairo.
> > > Wooot! Off to a flying start :)
> > > > The only thing holding me up is trying to prevent the window gaining
> > > > focus when it is clicked.  Could someone familiar with the GOK source
> > > > code tell me how it manages it?
> > > I'm not sure too many people on this list have hacked on GOK. David
> > > Bolter <david DOT bolter AT utoronto DOT ca> would be the best person to
> > > ask, or perhaps other people on the gnome accessibility list.
> > > > I've been thinking of some ideas on how to handle the layout of keys
> > > > on the keyboard.  One way of doing it would be having a pair of lines
> > > > or 'rails', which could be curved or straight or whatever.  Keys could
> > > > then be packed into the space between these rails, getting they're
> > > > size and shape from the shape of the rails and the distance between
> > > > them.
> > > OK, sounds plausible. I had another crazy idea: Could the whole keyboard
> > > be stored as one or more SVG files? Then you could use Inkscape as the
> > > keyboard layout editor. That might make things much more complex though
> > > ... ?
> > > > This would allow us loads of freedom on the layout of the keys.  One
> > > > example would be the pair of radial thumb keyboards that the
> > > > 'ultra-mobile' version of Windows ships with.
> > > That sounds cool. The more flexibility we provide the better.
> > >
> > > - Henrik
> > >
> > >
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