Re: An attempt for a virtual keyboard :-)

From: George Petasis (petasis_at_iit.demokritos.gr)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:48:54 +0300

Donald Arseneau wrote:
> "Georgios Petasis" <petasis@iit.demokritos.gr> writes:
>
> [with quoting ordered]
>
>
>>>How does one add a keyboard layout that includes combinations with AltGr
>
>
>>Hmm, my keyboard does not have such a key. Is it different than the Alt key
>>next to the space bar?
>
>
> I think he means Alt-Greater, which on my keyboard is a three-key
> Alt-Shift-.
>
> There is also the Compose key for multi-keystroke character entry,
> where you would enter ö by pressing (individually, not together)
> Compose, o, " (the last is Shift-' for me). My current Compose
> key is labelled with four connected rectangles with a wavy trail
> (:-).

Mine also :-) And impossible to get it when pressed under a specific
set of operating systems :-)
>
>
>>I have not included this key (and also Ctrl) because I was't aware that
>>they are used to insert characters.
>
>
> Control is certainly used to enter characters! (What else?)
> How do you handle the SHIFT key? Control will have to be the
> same.
>
> Characters are often entered by holding Alt and entering the
> numeric character code (prefixed by 0 for latter-day MSWin)
>
> Both Alt - 0 1 8 1 and Compose / u give µ.
>
> Donald Arseneau asnd@triumf.ca

I am going to add both control & alt buttons. But I am not sure I can
add the compose key, or at least to bind it to the keyboard (perhaps
the user will have to use the mouse to press it).
I wonder, how these characters are inserted under windows, when the
compose key is not available?

George