*/David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>/* wrote:
Dear Purushotham and Santosh,
I would like to help you if I can. (Simon Bates forwarded your
message
to me). I'm not sure what the goal of your project is, but it
would be
great if you could improve the Indian language/s support with GOK.
Perhaps you could help us make gok more useful to people wanting
to use
it for advanced language input methods.
I am also copying Bill Haneman on this email as he and I are the
current
maintainers for the GOK project.
Please let us know more specifics of your project goals so that we
can
help you better.
cheers,
David Bolter
Simon Bates wrote:
>
>
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>
> Subject:
> Help for project work in Linux
> From:
> Purushotham Yadav
> Date:
>! ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 03:41:45 -0700 (PDT)
> To:
> simon bates utoronto ca
>
> From,
>
> Purushotham. L and
> Santosh Kumar. P.A,
> Information-Science and Engineering,
> Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering,
> Bangalore, India .
>
>
> To,
> Mr. Simon Bates,
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre.
>
> Respected Sir,
> Sub : /Help for a project on On-Screenkeyboard
> simulation for
> Red Hat Linux 9.0 ...
>
> /We, Purushotham. L and Santosh Kumar P. A. are
> students doing our graduation in Information-Science and
Engineering,
> located in Bangalore,India.
> _As a part of the college curriculum we have a mini-project to be
done
> during this
> semester.
> _ We are inspired by the wonderful work of designing
> an On-screen keyboard
> for Fedora Core 1 by you and your team. Based on this topic we!
have
> chosen to do our
> mini-project. _We are interested to learn the programming aspect
of your
> package.
> _Our team has been working on 'Glade Interface designer'
package to
> achieve the same.
> The package we are trying to do with your help is intended to
support
> Indian language/s
> on 'Red Hat Linux 9.0 and later versions.
> *Thus, we request to help us on how to go about the
> development.
> Provide us with some programming techniques, hints and
suggestions to be
> followed regarding this. We kindly request if you and your team
kindly
> provide details onhow to go about the work as soon as possible
and oblige.
>
> *
>
> Thanking you,
>
> *
> Purushotham. L
>
> >
>
> Santosh Kumar P. A.
>
> >*
>
> *
> *
>
>
>
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From,
Purushotham. L and
Santosh Kumar. P.A,
Information-Science and Engineering,
Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering,
Bangalore, India .
To,
Mr. David Bolter.
Respected Sir,
Many thanks for your immediate response. Details of our project is
as undermentioned,
We are working on the Red Hat 9.0 OS using GLADE Interface Designer
for the project.
We wish to develop the keyboard layout using the GLADE GUI builder.
Basic part of our project should print the characters given on the GUI
button when the mouse clicks
on it. The important thing is to simulate keyboard layout having
English characters and the
display should be on any current active window on the screen. Function
keys,special characters,shift,control
etc. should also be operable.
We have gone through basic operations, Widgets, gdk-keyboard handling,
gtk-Buttons, gtk-Clipboard in the help file.We have also a keyboard
layout. Now, we mainly need to
know how the 'keyboard-like signals' are to be sent from the GUI
buttons to the kernel and back to
current active window. The butt! ons when clicked on the GUI should
perform operations same as
when keyboard is operated.
If this basic prototype is achieved, we would like it to be enhanced
for
Indian language/s.
And yeah! we are doing this as a mini-project as a part of the
curricullum.
This should be submitted as soon as possible,say in about 20-25 days.
We are determined to this
completely and obviously not at all without your help.
Please, do send this message who are also interested in the project
work.
We will be very thankful althrough for your kind guidance.
Thanking you,
Sincerely yours,
Purushotham. L
Santhosh Kumar P. A.
