Re: KeyCode to Character mapping
Re: KeyCode to Character mapping
- Subject: Re: KeyCode to Character mapping
- From: Akhil Jindal <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:33:39 +0530
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 1:30 AM, Akhil Jindal wrote:
>
> > I am developing a desktop application on cocoa and am trying to handle
> the
> > menu keyboard shortcuts on my own.
>
> That's weird. Why? Maybe your reasons for doing so are based on faulty
> assumptions or what you're _really_ trying to accomplish -- since I very
> much doubt that handling menu keyboard shortcuts is a first-order interest
> of yours -- can be done a different way that doesn't require this.
>
>
> Well, I would very much like it if I could let the OS handle it. The
problem is that I have some keyboard shortcuts associated with hidden
menus. Cocoa doesn't seem to be able to handle that!
> > OSStatus status = UCKeyTranslate(keyboardLayout, inScanCode,
> > kUCKeyActionDown, inModifiers, LMGetKbdType(),
> > kUCKeyTranslateNoDeadKeysBit, &deadKeyState, maxStrLen, &actualLength,
> > strBuff);
>
> > This works fine for English language but when I use an IME, say for
> example
> > Cangjie, Zhuyin,etc things start to mess up. I have for eg a keyboard
> > shortcut of Cmd+N for opening a new file. But on pressing 'N' on these
> > IME's I get a japanese/chinese character which obviously doesn't match up
> > with 'N' and hence the shortcut doesn't work.
>
> What are you passing in for the modifiers? I would expect that passing in
> cmdKeyBit would result in UCKeyTranslate returning latin characters.
>
I'm not passing in any modifiers. I've initialised inModifiers as 0.
I tried passing in cmdKeyBit as the modifier but with that UCKeyTranslate()
is returning actualLength as 0 on pressing Cmd+N on US IME itself.
> Regards,
> Ken
>
>
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