From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 12:00:47 +1100

Re: Dead keys

Marcus writes:

>  Andrew Apted wrote:
>  > 
>  > Marcus writes:
>  > 
>  > >  "sym" is fairly obvious, GIIK_VOID when a dead key is pressed and
>  > >  then the symbol when the next key is pressed. What about "label"?
>  > >  People might have both normal and dead versions of the same key,
>  > >  so we need labels for them.
>  > 
>  > No, labels aren't affected.  There is only one label per key (so you can't
>  > have "normal and dead versions").
>  
>  Sure you can, it's just a matter of keymapping. (And labels are
>  dependent of that, on my keyboard (which is a UK I believe) the key to
>  the right of 'L' has a ';' label, but nevertheless LibGGI will return
>  GIIUC_Odiaeresis because I use a Swedish keymap.)
  
Huh ?  At any one time, there is only one GII label per key on the
keyboard.  I still don't understand why you want "extra" labels ??

>  >    press 'a'       KeyPress    a-umlaut    'a'
>  >    release it      KeyRelease  a-umlaut    'a'
>  
>  Yep, this is exactly what I meant, just with the addition that we
>  need to support dead keys in the label field for some cases.
>  
>  <nitpick>
>  Don't forget that label is always uppercase, we don't want to confuse
>  our developers. ;-)
>  </nitpick>

D'oh.  "Welcome to nitpickville, I hope you enjoy your stay" :).

Cheers,
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