Re: Working with GDK_Multi_key & Friends
- From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- To: Daniel Yacob <locales geez org>
- Cc: gtk-i18n-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Working with GDK_Multi_key & Friends
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:28:12 -0500 (EST)
Daniel Yacob <locales geez org> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm working on an input method where I need to use apostrophe
> as a dead key. Unless a composable character follows apostrophe,
> it doesn't render in the text buffer. If a combining character
> follows, of course that should appear. A simple example:
>
> keystrokes => composition
> --------------------------
> n'n => nn
> n'a => n\xE1
> n'' => n'
>
>
> I found in gtkimcontextsimple.c some code that looks like it can
> be modified for use in this IM:
>
> GDK_Multi_key, GDK_apostrophe, GDK_space, 0, 0, 0x0027, /* APOSTROPHE */
> GDK_Multi_key, GDK_apostrophe, GDK_apostrophe, 0, 0, 0x00B4, /* ACUTE_ACCENT */
> GDK_Multi_key, GDK_apostrophe, GDK_a, 0, 0, 0x00E1, /* LATIN_SMALL_LETTER_A_WITH_ACUTE */
>
>
> However, I don't understand the GDK_Multi_key part of it. What
> initiates the "Multi Key" context? Does it take a key sequence
> to get GDK_Multi_key signalled (I'm on an English 101 type keyboard)?
>
> I realize that I might be going about this the wrong way, any
> advice and pointers for working with GDK_ special keys would
> be appreciated.
The Multi_key is a separate key (usually labelled "Compose") that some
keyboards might have, which means "combine the next characters". So,
if I type <compose><'><a> I get 'a' with an accent. So, you simply
don't need the Multi_key here since you don't want your users to
have type anything special. You'd just want something like:
GDK_n, GDK_apostrophe, GDK_n, 0, 0, ...
Regards,
Owen
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