Re: Converting HID keyboards usages to characters ?
Re: Converting HID keyboards usages to characters ?
- Subject: Re: Converting HID keyboards usages to characters ?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:09:46 -0400
- Thread-topic: Converting HID keyboards usages to characters ?
on 2008-06-19 4:32 AM, Fred Leboucher at email@hidden wrote:
> This technical note from Apple
> (http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2056.html) details the file
> formats available for keyboard layouts, but there's no information about the
> way
> to:
> - get info about the currently selected one
> - a method to convert a key code to a unicode char (parsing the whole XML file
> and doing the conversion by hand would be quite nasty, assuming that you even
> know how to do the first step: know what layout is to be used)
>
> Anyone knows how to do that ?
Read up on the UCKeyTranslate function in unicode utilities.
Also read this thread for Leopard source code from Michael Grady:
<http://lists.apple.com/archives/carbon-dev/2007/Jun/msg00861.html>,
and this thread for Tiger source code from Dorian Johnson: <http://
www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2007/6/9/184395>.
--
Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
www.quecheesoftware.com
PreFab Software - www.prefabsoftware.com
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