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

[Vyacheslav Egorov <v e egorov gmail com>]

> 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.

--
e.v.e



On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, John
Ralls<jralls ceridwen fremont ca us> wrote:
>
> On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Vyacheslav Egorov wrote:
>
>>> It's much more likely that textadept simply isn't responding to the
>>> shortcut.
>>
>> Why should textadept respond to it?
>> It is a global shortcut (configured in System Preferences >
>> Keyboard&Mouse > Keyboard Shortсuts) not a textadept shortcut. So I
>> think that OS itself should respond to it, not the application. BTW,
>> textadept receives cmd+space keypress event.
>>
>> In Linux I use ctrl+shift to switch keyboard layouts, but Mac OS X
>> does not allow to assign this shortcut to input source switching.
>>
>
> 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. For how this works in a normal Carbon
> application, see http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/UnderstandTextInput_TSM/tinptsm_intro/tinptsm_intro.html
>
> Ctrl-Shift? Really? That's rather unusual. No, of course you can't map
> that to the Mac Keyboard Shortcut, but you don't want to. Just open
> textadept and press it  and see if it changes the input method for
> you. It's actually rather likely that it will, because it has to trap
> low-level keyboard events (key-down) to be able to see that sequence
> at all.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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