sq.h changes, grabbed reserved field in sqKeyboardEvent

[John M McIntosh]

So why can't you use ToUnicode() to translate the virtual key code or  
the scan key code into the unicode character?

Sure I can return 42 the magic number from LMGetKbdType() meaning you  
are using as Estonia keyboard, or maybe
78 for Devanagari keyboard in the Indian Language Kit, however it's  
unlikely I or any other developer will want to code the
keyboard to ascii/macroman/unicode whatever translation tables in the  
image.


On 29-Mar-06, at 4:16 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Michael Rueger wrote:
>>> I'm not quite sure about the consequences for some of the weirder  
>>> keyboard layouts though:
>>>
>>> From a user's point of view (what the user thinks he pressed)
>>> ctrl-shift-VK_1 on "normal" keyboards would mean ctrl-!,
>>> on French ones it would mean ctrl-1 .
>
> Ah, keyboard layouts. What a pain. Can we please (please, please,  
> please!) not require VMs to deal with those? It's a pain and it's a  
> mess and I'd rather have some image code deal with it. So, instead  
> of extending keyboard events, how about simply reporting a  
> "keyboard layout identifier"[*] that the image can use to map keys  
> reported by the VM into whatever it wants to?
>
> [*] On Windows, that would be an identifier from  
> GetKeyboardLayoutName (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ 
> default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/ 
> userinput/keyboardinput/keyboardinputreference/ 
> keyboardinputfunctions/getkeyboardlayoutname.asp)
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>

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