[g-a-devel] Re: Summer of Code: Simple On-screen Keyboard

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Hi Chris,

Have a look at gok_main_create_window in:
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gok/gok/main.c?annotate=1.191

Another thing you might consider is making your window a docked window. 
This can really help with screen real estate issues as well as focus 
issues.  We made docking optional in GOK.

cheers,
David

Chris Jones wrote:
> I'm writing a on-screen keyboard for Ubuntu as per the spec here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/SOK
>
> I'm writing it in python, using pygtk and drawing the keys of the
> keyboard using cairo.
>
> Currently I've wrapped up fakekey with SWIG and am using that to input
> text into the currently focused window.  Unfortunately, the keyboard
> window focuses when I click on the drawingarea widget that draws the
> keys.  Making the thing fairly useless at this point.
>
> If anyone who is familiar with the GOK code reads this, could they
> detail how they got round this problem.
>
> thanks
>