sq.h changes, grabbed reserved field in sqKeyboardEvent

[John M McIntosh]

k, so on the key up/down can we pass up the unicode value? At least  
on the mac at that point I know the unicode values in relationship to
what the keyboard interaction was.
On 31-Mar-06, at 12:15 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Here is another run at the fence:
>
> John M McIntosh wrote:
>> 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.
>
> What we could do for trying to solve the problem Mike described, is  
> to expose the functionality of ToUnicode or equivalent. E.g.,  
> instead of having the VM doing all the mapping, allow the image  
> request information about "what would the result of mapping this  
> key combination be" and basically use the information we get out of  
> the keyboard events (meta state and key code). That way, if you  
> wanted to map Ctrl-Shift-1 to Ctrl-! you'd filter out the Ctrl key,  
> map Shift-1 to "!" and are done.
>
> The issue here is that I've got no idea how hard it is to support  
> this on other platforms...
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas

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