nanogui: Support for on-screen keyboard
Subject:
Re: Support for on-screen keyboard
From:
Alexander Peuchert ####@####.####
Date:
15 May 1999 15:23:08 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9905151717550.26163-100000@rumburak>
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Alex Holden wrote:
> On Sat, 15 May 1999, Vidar Hokstad wrote:
> > To be attractive for use with set-top boxes etc, NanoX will need support
> > for some sort of on-screen keyboard...
>
> I don't know about set top boxes (don't you use a remote control for
> them?), but palmtops certainly need this. Have you seen
> http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/perlin/demos/quikwriting.html ? I think it's pretty
> cool, it seems strange at first, but it's not too bad apart from the lack
> of symbols and control keys once you get used to it.
>
> > It can be a separate client, as long as we add a command to
> > generate keypress events. That's the easy part. But we also
> > need a sensible way of knowing what window to target with the
> > events, since the mouse pointer will be over the onscreen keyboard,
> > and we don't want that to receive the events it generates.
>
> How about a call which sends a key event to the window which was last in
> focus? Or a combination of a call which returns the ID of the last window
> which was in focus and another call which sends a keyboard event to a
> specified window?
How about excluding some windows from getting focus ?
>
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- alex
Alexander Peuchert
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