Re: unpleasant characters

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Euler Taveira de Oliveira
<euler(at)timbira(dot)com> wrote:
> Dave Page escreveu:
>> Do you know if this will have any unpleasant side-effects in Japan or
>> other regions with what we would consider to be unusual keyboard
>> layouts?
>>
>>
> As I said, I don't know if we'll have problems with it; but if they map Fx key
> to some character, they have trouble using our shortcuts anyway. Could Hiroshi
> or someone else confirm this? If we have problems, I'm afraid the only path is
> coding OnChar() (which would be a pain in the neck because we'll have to
> maintain code that IMHO is WX responsibility).
>
> I noticed that even if we don't event.Skip() on OnKeyDown() event (the patch)
> the shortcut is executed (for example F5) maybe because it is caught by
> OnKeyUp(), another key event, or another object? I don't know how events are
> handled in WX but somehow OnKeyDown() are processed _before_ OnChar() so the
> character are not printed. Also, it didn't prevent another object (wxMenu) to
> capture that event too.
>
> Did you reproduce the problem?

Nope - cannot reproduce any problem here, but then my Windows machine
is running in vmware fusion which may not be helping matters.

Anyone else?

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Dave Page
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