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Alexander Batalshikov

Unicode support problems

For now, some unicode symbols is impossible input from keyboard
(at least, russian letters 'Л', 'О', 'Н' on Windows platform).
I found some solution of this problem:
in method ParagraphEditor>>dispatchOnKeyEvent:with:
replace line:
keyValue := keyValue ifNil: [keyEvent keyValue].
with line:
keyValue := keyValue ifNil: [keyEvent keyCharacter asInteger].

Then save method and that's all.

Cause of the problem: expressoin "keyEvent keyValue" return small number for
all symbols, unclude unicode and give activation of shortcut events, defined in methods
ParagraphEditor class>>initializeCmdKeyShortcuts,
ParagraphEditor class>>initializeShiftCmdKeyShortcuts.

I also notice other strange things: method KeyboardEvent>>keyCharacter
sends up to 14 times for one keyboard pressing.
Is this normal?

Regards, Alexander Batalshikov.

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Michael Rueger-6

Re: Unicode support problems

Alexandr Batalshikov wrote:
> For now, some unicode symbols is impossible input from keyboard
> (at least, russian letters 'Л', 'О', 'Н' on Windows platform).
> I found some solution of this problem:
> in method ParagraphEditor>>dispatchOnKeyEvent:with:
> replace line:
> keyValue := keyValue ifNil: [keyEvent keyValue].
> with line:
> keyValue := keyValue ifNil: [keyEvent keyCharacter asInteger].

In general it looks like most (all?) senders of keyValue should rather
use keyCharacter.

> I also notice other strange things: method KeyboardEvent>>keyCharacter
> sends up to 14 times for one keyboard pressing.
> Is this normal?

I'm afraid yes, but it would still be interesting to trace who all these
senders are. Key handling in Morphic is a mess, so there should be lots
of room for improvement.

Michael

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Alexander Batalshikov

Re: Unicode support problems

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Michael Rueger <[hidden email]> wrote:

Alexandr Batalshikov wrote:
> For now, some unicode symbols is impossible input from keyboard
> (at least, russian letters 'Л', 'О', 'Н' on Windows platform).
> I found some solution of this problem:
> in method ParagraphEditor>>dispatchOnKeyEvent:with:
> replace line:
> keyValue := keyValue ifNil: [keyEvent keyValue].
> with line:
> keyValue := keyValue ifNil: [keyEvent keyCharacter asInteger].

In general it looks like most (all?) senders of keyValue should rather
use keyCharacter.

Apparently, yes.

At least, this is not seems to be simple typo error in Unicode tables.

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