Re: [Gtk-osx-users] problem with input source switching

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us>]

On Jul 17, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Vyacheslav Egorov wrote:

>> Because gdk-quartz doesn't magically turn textadept into a Mac
>> application, and it's the application's job to take key events and
>> turn them into characters.
>
> Lets check that I understand you correctly: so I need to add a special
> code to TextAdept that will consume cmd+space keypress and switch
> input source through some Carbon API? That's rather strange. I thought
> that input sources are handled globally. When I switch input source
> for one application it affects all other applications as well (so
> currently if I want to type Russian text I have to go to some other
> application i.e. Safari, press cmd+space, return to textadept, type
> some Russian text, then again go to Safari, press cmd+space, go back
> to textadept and type some English letters, then again...).
>
> Thanks for the link. I will take a look at it.
>
>> Ctrl-Shift? Really? That's rather unusual.
>
> Initially I came from the Win-world (and still do a lot of programming
> for Windows), so I'm addicted to this shortcut.
>
> Under Linux I had to configure X.Org (XKB) to use this shortcut for
> keyboard layout switching, so (no surprise) it does not work for
> textadept under Mac OS X.



Yes, you understand correctly. Did you read and understand the Apple  
documentation I pointed you to?

So you're not even using the GTK IM switching facility, you've hacked  
X instead, and you somehow expect this to work cross-platform?

Regards,
John Ralls