keyboard

Command key to Meta in Emacs

I'm using a Mac keyboard on Ubuntu at work. What do I add to my .emacs file to turn the command key to Meta? I tried (setq mac-command-key-is-meta t) and (setq mac-command-key 'meta) and neither works. ...

Intercept keystrokes to a window

Is it possible to intercept a keystroke (and characters) sent to a window? By intercept, I mean play man-in-the-middle, instead of having just hooks onto the Window. I'd like to filter (i.e. eliminate some keystrokes) keystrokes to a window. ...

scrolling in windows

can somebody explain please how can I do scrolling in window (in Windows) using my keyboard, thanks in advance(hotkeys) ...

How to capture any key in X?

Hi, I am building an application for which I need to periodically get information about users keyboard. It is going to be user idle detection application. I have a fairly simple solution to periodically check if the mouse has been moved. But I can't figure any reasonable non root way to detect if the keyboard has been pressed. I was thi...

Send Keyboard Events from one Form to another Form

Hello, my question is quite simple: Our C# application has one MainForm with a menu and several keyboard shortcuts associated with the menu entries. Now we need to trigger the menu entries from some child forms too. But since the MainForm is inactive when one of the child forms is active, the shortcuts do not work. Is there a simple ...

Calling Custom Android Keyboard in my application

Hi, I have searched the net quite a bit and haven't found a single resource that can help me call my custom keyboard in my application. I am using the android/sdk examples/soft keyboard and have commented out the first row of keys in the qwerty.xml file for testing purposes. I have tried making changes in the AndroidManifest.xml but st...

Hiding keyboard with UIScrollView without glitches

I have multiple editable textfiels and some of them are covered with keyboard. So I used UIScrollView and it works quite nice. Problem is when I want to hide keyboard. If I was scrolled down, after the keyboard hides, everything jumps up as it was at beginning (without keyboard). I want to tween this part as the keyboard is hiding. So f...

Android Soft Keyboard Keys Layout

Hi friend, I am trying to build an Android Soft keyboard application using avail code at http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SoftKeyboard/index.html I want to rounded key like iPhone. please suggest me. Thanks in Advance. ...

How to change the label of "Search" key on iPhone's keyboard to customized text?

I am using a UISearchBar and i want to change the "Search" key's label to customized text such as "ABC".how to do? thanks in advance! ...

OSX Leopard HID getting simple keyboard input example?

Hi, I am about to implement simple keyboard and mouse input on osx for my engine. I want to abstract the implementation in more generic c++ classes like Keyboard and Mouse plus appropriate Listeners for portability. Anyways, I came across the Leopard HID Api (http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2007/tn2187.html#TNTAG9000-...

jQuery Tools - to make Keyboard and Cookies feature for AJAX:ed tabs with History and Google Analytics

Could anyone make Keyboard and Cookies feature for jQuery Tools AJAX:ed Tabs with History and Google Analytics!? The feature issue in http://github.com/jquerytools/jquerytools/issues#issue/54 Simple Keyboard feature for jQuery UI Tabs already has been done in http://fnagel.github.com/jQuery-Accessible-RIA/Tabs/ajax.html jQuery Tools Ta...

Android: How to create custom shape keys on keyboard?

I wonder how could is possible to make custom shape key on android keyboard. To create custom keyboard is relatively easy, but what needs to be done to create new buttons. They also need to respond with all events as normal keyboard. Any ideas where to start? ...

How can I dismiss keyboard in iPhone OS 3.2 with text field in popover?

Edit:Ok, this is weird... After doing extensive debugging, I have discovered that whilst the text fields are resigning first responder status (I can see that there is no longer a blinking bar in any), the keyboard is NOT GOING DOWN! Maybe this deserves a different question. I have several text fields in a custom uiviewcontroller subcla...

Hook key & key combinations from keyboard with Qt 4.6

Let's say I have a window-less application which has only an icon on the Taskbar (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux). I want it to capture some key & key combinations, let's say Right Control + Right Shift. Upon keying in correct, combination, it will do something, say take screenshot. I can do window-less app, icon on the Taskbar and screen cap...

C key pressed in Linux console

I have started to study C. I'm using Linux console and I would like to do a program which outputs random characters until ESC is pressed. How can I make such a keyboard handler? ...

Keyboard navigation for jQuery Tabs

How to make Keyboard navigation left/up/right/down (like for photo gallery) feature for jQury Tabs with History? Demo without Keyboard feature in http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6594481/tabs/index.html Needed functions: 1. on keyboardtop/down> make select and CSS showactivenested ajax tabs from 1-st to last level 2. on keyboardleft/right> chang...

Python - detect keyboard layout

Playing around with RFID reader in serial, using python to output to console through uinput/ The thing is, doing the conversion from fake-rfid-keyboard-codes to code sent to uinput/, I would better know if I am using a QWERTY or an AZERTY ('a' becoming 'q', etc...) Back here in Belgium, especially during the event I am working on we ar...

simple image animation with the keyboard

Hi the app I am currently working on requires a simple animation to be performed, which I am able to do but timing is an issue. The app uses the slightly opaque keyboard and I have set up a black background to make it more visually pleasing . The app is a utility app and as the user clicks on a settings button the app will flip which loo...

Doing something with the numeric keypad

I, like most people, don't use the numeric keypad on my keyboard much and they seem to me to be a complete waste of otherwise perfectly good eighteen keys. I was wondering if there was something cool that could be done with them - I've heard of some people controlling their mouse pointer using the 2, 4, 6 and 8 keys, but that does seem ...

How to make an application like google transliteration desktop application in c#

Just the functionality of intercepting the keyboard entry , transforming it and sending it back is required.eg if user press a i wold like to send e etc. To make a application that accepts the entry from keyboard modify it and send it to the active window (may be application like word, excel,notepad windows screens ) etc. The feature i...