How can I find out, which keyboard layout the user of my ruby application is using? My aim is to have a game, where you can move the player on a map. To go one step down and one step left you press "Y" on a german keyboard. On an American keyboard, you would press "Z". We optimized the game for windows and mac, so I would like a solution...
I'm writing a program in C# that runs in the background and allows users to use a htokey to switch keyboard layouts in the active window. (Windows only supports CTRL+SHIFT & ALT+SHIFT) I'm using RegisterHotKey to catch the hotkey, & it's working fine. The problem is that I can't find any API to change the keyboard layout for the focus...
I think everybody who had to program using a standard German (or any other international) keyboard layout on Windows (or Mac) will complain about the conundrum of either having all special characters ( [ ] | { } / etc. ) needed for most programming languages "at the fingertip" and "losing" the language specific characters (umlauts ä ö ü ...
Hi, I am running a machine with SunOS and NO graphical enviroment. Does someone know how to change the keyboard layout from the console?? Thanks ...
Running VBA under XP I was able to call ActivateKeyboardLayout to switch my input language from English to another language. However, this no longer works under Vista64. Any suggestions or workarounds? The code that used to work under XP was similar to the following: Private Declare Function ActivateKeyboardLayout Lib "user32" ( _ ...
There is another problem. It happens with XP and Windows 7 (interestingly, Vista didn't show this behavior). I have 3 keyboard layouts. English, Russian and Hebrew. The English is a customized layout, similar to the US-International but AltGr has many different languages' dead-keys to create any possible diacritics or Old English letter...
OK, this is a slightly weird question. We have a touch-screen application (i.e., no keyboard). When users need to enter text, the application shows virtual keyboard - hand-built in WinForms. Making these things by hand for each new language is monkey work. I figure that windows must have this keyboard layout information hiding somewher...
I am a big fan of vim and gvim. But whenever I write localization code in PHP and have to translate some strings (primarily in Russian), I have to open Notepad to translate all the entries. That kinda sucks, but so far I have not found out how to make gvim work in utf8 mode. Any ideas would be appreciated. ...
Simple example: 2 jtextfields, one for a spanish word another one for it's translation. Is there a way to preserve keyboard layout per jtextfield so that the user wouldn't have to switch back and forth? TIA. ...
I'm sitting here feeling silly - the vim help tells me to hit CTRL] (to follow links in the help) and I can't get it!? Same problem with ^Wc (close a split window) I have a German keyboard and especially the CTRL] doesn't seem to work for me. How do I do them? Thanks for the help so far, seems to work except the CTRL]! Any idea how I...
I am displaying an on-screen keyboard overlay, and ideally I would like to display something resembling the user's actual keyboard, which I do under X with XkbGetGeometry, much like xkbprint. I was wondering if there was something comparable on OS X and Windows. ...
My users need to enter latitude and longitude, and of course I need to verify that the values entered are legitimate lat/long value. I'd like to have a keyboard layout that does some of this for me (eliminating alphabetic characters, punctuation, etc, and leaving only the numbers and +/-). The number pad keyboard doesn't seem to do it ...
I'm working on a program that needs to record and play back keystrokes. The main process runs as a service, so it needs a configuration program to record the keystrokes. The problem comes when the system default keyboard layout is (say) English, and the user's keyboard layout of the moment is (say) German. The user enters a 'ü' characte...
The lack of uniformity of the pgup print screen arrows etc is getting on my nerves. I am wondering if any of the laser keyboards would make me a more efficient keyboarder by allowing me to adjust those keys and make fewer mistakes in programs, emails, and administrative tasks. ...
I have a device that outputs a limited number of keycodes (for example a keyboard-wedge barcode scanner) and I want to know what those keycodes will type on all possible keyboard layouts. I'd like to write an X11 client that sets the keyboard layout to each installed keymap and then records the Unicode received for each keypress from the...
X11 maps keycodes to keysyms and then maps keysyms to Unicode. What's a good way to retrieve keysym to Unicode mappings in a program? ...
I am currently writing a keyboard layout optimization algorithm in C (such as the one designed by Peter Klausler) and I want to implement a fitness-proportionate selection as described here (PDF Link): With roulette selection you select members of the population based on a roullete wheel model. Make a pie chart, where the ar...
My non-Unicode application needs to be able to process Unicode keyboard input (WM_CHAR/etc.), thus receive the 8-bit character code then internally convert it to Unicode. 9x-compatibility is required, so using most Unicode APIs is not an option. Currently it looks at the language returned by PRIMARYLANGID(GetKeyboardLayout(0)), and loo...
I did an application to enter chinese pinyin and hanzi in a database. That means that the operator have to switch constantly between "Pinyinput" and "sogou input" with ctrl+shift There is a way to make the IME change automaticall when a textbox is selected? I mean, not switch the keyboard layout, just the input method of the same keyboar...
I'm looking for a way to add one more "layout" to my keyboard. I'm already using a layout that uses altgr for local alphabet letters. What I'd like to add is a mirrored righthand-side keyboard that's activated with the caps-lock (one described in http://xkcd.com/mirrorboard.xkb) Unfortunately ISO_LEVEL3_SHIFT is already taken by local a...