[maemo-developers] No key events for virtual keyboard?

[From: Till Harbaum / Lists]

Hi,

Am Freitag 09 Januar 2009 schrieb Eero Tamminen:
> VKBD sends the events as X messages to the Gtk editing widget
> (i.e. something having Gtk IM context) that has the focus.
I was already thinking of fetching the text input from the entry fields
and use that as the input to the origimal tetrinet engine. But this
has one major drawback: This requires a widget to have focus, even
with the physcial keyboard of the n810. And while i try to make the
entire game stylus controllable experienced tetrinet users may actually
prefer to use the keyboard shortcuts which won't work at all if no
editing widget has the focus. 

I can't add some editing widget as a container for the entire game gui, 
can i? The problem bascially breaks down to:

I'd like my app to:
- directly receive any key event from the physcial keyboard to allow
  keyboard based game control
- be able to grab things from gtk_entry's filled by the virtual keyboard

The problem is: If i do both the physical keyboards input will pass my
key handling twice: Once via the key event and a second time if an 
editable widget as focus its content is evaluated a second time. 

I don't have an idea how to solve this.

> Apparently it still synthetizes couple of keys (apparently Enter
> and maybe Backspace) as normal X key events, but that doesn't work
> for all keys (X key events cannot represent all unicode characters).
Ok, understood. Although i don't understand why you don't do this for
all keys that have a X key event representation.

Till