[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] non-maemo apps in toolbar

[From: Matthew Allum]

Hi;

On 1/5/06, Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at movial.fi> wrote:
>
> As to the input method, maybe the program could depend from
> xkbd (AFAIK doesn't support unicode, but as it works by synthetizing
> key events with XTest extension it should work with all X programs)

Xkbd is dead dead dead. Use matchbox-keyboard instead ( its a complete
much needed rewrite ), it supports full UTF8 but lacks a couple of
minor things like images on keys and themeing.

Oh and its svn only :( See;

http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/matchbox/trunk/matchbox-keyboard/README

> and launch it when the program itself is started?
>

To make an input window work in maemo env ( this is different to
defualt mb input win handling ) you need to have it set its transiency
to the window its entering data for. matchbox-keyboard doesn't do
this. but you could just embed matchbox-keyboard via XEMBED in some
kind of wrapper of your toolkit of choice that handles the transiency
or just avoid input windows all togeather and embed it direct in your
app.

  -- Matthew