Re: Visual Keyboard

[Dov Grobgeld <dov grobgeld gmail com>]

Would the following work?

• Create a keyboard widget with GtkButtons representing the "normal" keys and GtkToggleButtons for Shift, Control, Alt, etc.
  
• Overwrite the button-press-event of each GtkButton to prevent button press events with from stealing the keyboard focus.
• In the clicked event of the keyboard buttons, look up the current focused widget, and send it a (synthetic) key-press-event of the configuration of the current key plus the state of the sticky keys.

Of course such a widget should take its keyboard layout(s) from a configuration file.

Is it really that simple? ;-)

Regards,
Dov

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 17:10, Emmanuel Gontcho <gontcho gmail com> wrote:

Thank you all for your answer,

I have never tried before to write a widget from scratch, nor now,
cause I have no time, the software must work before 15th december. So
quickly I made what you can see in the attachment, using one or two
functions, GtkTable and buttons, I think it is enough for the
begining.

2010/11/24, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>:

> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Frederico <frede sch gmail com> wrote:
>> I think that this kind of feature normally is abstracted by the OS.
>> Ex: Android always shows a virtual keyboard when a text widget have
>> focus. Other example is the virtual keyboard of windows, but it must
>> be manually executed, differently from Android.
>
> he's asking about the existence of a GTK widget that can be used for this.
>
> the answer, AFAIK, is that no such widget exists.
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