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I'm asked by a friend to develop an antique
greek teaching system that can run on both Linux and Windows. Though I'm using GTKmm it would seem a problem that this list
should cover.
My problem is this: I would like to make an
artificial mapping of keypresses so I can control how special glyphs are
mapped or even make it user customizable. For instance the
keypresses:
' - \ shift+a should map to
an upper-case eta-character with a iota-subscriptum, a spiritus lenis
and a gravis accent. That character can be found
at unicode: 1F92
PROBLEMS...
o) I would like to extend a
regular Entry widget so I save myself the fuzz of making cursormovements
etc.
o) I should be able to intercept
keypresses and either 1) record a ligature keypress, which isn't sent to the
widget but withheld until later, or 2) emit a unicode character which is a
compound of of the ligatures + base character
o) If I intercept
on_key_press_event I can record keypresses, like this:
if
(event->keyval>=128)
return this->Gtk::Entry :: on_key_press_event(event); // do mapping stuff
// if a key is ready to be printed, put it's
unicode value in event->keyval and call a...
return this->Gtk::Entry ::
on_key_press_event(event);
but it would seem
that the Entry widget doesn't respond to this, which would make sense, since it
probably reacts upon keyboard-keycodes and not mapped chars
OR...
o) I should be able to
specify how keypresses are mapped to chars through some obscure
input-control-mechanism. I'm not that advanced yet though..
Any suggestions are very welcome
Regards
Rene Jensen / Denmark
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