nanogui: Support for on-screen keyboard - SUMMARY
Subject:
Re: Support for on-screen keyboard - SUMMARY
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
16 May 1999 09:58:17 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905161045210.376-100000@hyperspace>
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Vidar Hokstad wrote:
> This require:
> * A small command to be added to the server to register the
> on-screen keyboard client as receiver of server wide focus
> events.
> * A small change to the command that generate focus events to
> send a copy to any client registered to receive server
> wide events.
We probably want something along this line for the window manager, so it
can alter the border appearance for the currently focussed window.
> - The on-screen keyboard then sits and waits for focus events, and
> as long as it is focus events for other windows than itself, it
> updates it's last-focused flag. Whenever it receive a button press
> over one of it's keys, it then calls a "SendKeyEvent()" type
> function, with the last-focused windowid, the key, and any modifiers
> as arguments.
>
> This require:
> * A command to be added to the server to send key events
> to the server, that will then resend the key event to
> the specified window.
>
> Anyone that sees problems, or have suggestions for changes to this
> modified suggestion?
Sounds okay, but I have to say I also quite like the idea now of having a
special value (which can never be a real window ID, like -1 or something)
for the SendKeyEvent() call which tells the server to send it to the last
focussed window.
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