The keyboard set I have does not allow this to work properly (French Canadian), So I swithched it to Canadian Multilingual, Since this doesnt need a key modifier to input an accented character I was able to input strings with accents. (like "éàç"). I also think this have to do with the font I used. Klasker font had all the character table set in the PNG file.
This seem to be related to keyboard input. Does someone know in what source file the keyboard input is treated? I would like to have a look.
I could simply check for "`" "¨" "¸" and the next character coming after then I would be able to use key modifier like in the french canadian keyboard.
Good work guys!
EDIT
Ok. This seem to be directly in the GUI with the inputbox control. I see that CONTROL key combinations are processessed there, perhaps there is a way to check for the accent, held a flag and process the next key pressed, drop the flag.
EDIT2: I made it work! My Canadian French keyboard is now working with text. I can input accents now!
I'm letting the accent modifier print in the text, then when the next key is pressed, I check if the previous key was a modifier and change the 2 keys for the proper one.
Here is the modified code in CGUIEditBox.cpp (From SVN: 2862. 13 dec 2009)
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void CGUIEditBox::inputChar(wchar_t c)
{
static bool problemchar = false;
static bool problemchar1 = false;
if (!IsEnabled)
return;
if (c != 0)
{
if (Text.size() < Max || Max == 0)
{
core::stringw s;
if (MarkBegin != MarkEnd)
{
// replace marked text
const s32 realmbgn = MarkBegin < MarkEnd ? MarkBegin : MarkEnd;
const s32 realmend = MarkBegin < MarkEnd ? MarkEnd : MarkBegin;
s = Text.subString(0, realmbgn);
s.append(c);
s.append( Text.subString(realmend, Text.size()-realmend) );
Text = s;
CursorPos = realmbgn+1;
}
else
{
// add new character
// Christian Clavet, check here for the accent key.
const core::stringc keytext=(core::stringc)c; //Ascii code version of C
if (Text.subString(CursorPos-1,CursorPos)=="`")
{
CursorPos--;
s = Text.subString(0, CursorPos);
Text = s;
if (c==*L"a") c=*L"à";
if (c==*L"A") c=*L"À";
if (c==*L"e") c=*L"è";
if (c==*L"E") c=*L"È";
if (c==*L"i") c=*L"ì";
if (c==*L"I") c=*L"Ì";
if (c==*L"o") c=*L"ò";
if (c==*L"O") c=*L"Ò";
if (c==*L"u") c=*L"ù";
if (c==*L"U") c=*L"Ù";
} else
if (problemchar1)//Text.subString(CursorPos-1,CursorPos)=="¨")
{
CursorPos--;
s = Text.subString(0, CursorPos);
Text = s;
if (c==*L"a") c=*L"ä";
if (c==*L"A") c=*L"Ä";
if (c==*L"e") c=*L"ë";
if (c==*L"E") c=*L"Ë";
if (c==*L"i") c=*L"ï";
if (c==*L"I") c=*L"Ï";
if (c==*L"o") c=*L"ö";
if (c==*L"O") c=*L"Ö";
if (c==*L"u") c=*L"ü";
if (c==*L"U") c=*L"Ü";
problemchar1=false;
} else
if (Text.subString(CursorPos-1,CursorPos)=="^")
{
CursorPos--;
s = Text.subString(0, CursorPos);
Text = s;
if (c==*L"a") c=*L"â";
if (c==*L"A") c=*L"Â";
if (c==*L"e") c=*L"ê";
if (c==*L"E") c=*L"Ê";
if (c==*L"i") c=*L"î";
if (c==*L"I") c=*L"Î";
if (c==*L"o") c=*L"ô";
if (c==*L"O") c=*L"Ô";
if (c==*L"u") c=*L"û";
if (c==*L"U") c=*L"Û";
} else
if (problemchar) //Text.subString(CursorPos-1,CursorPos)=="¸")
{
CursorPos--;
s = Text.subString(0, CursorPos);
Text = s;
if (c==*L"c") c=*L"ç";
if (c==*L"C") c=*L"Ç";
problemchar=false;
}
if (keytext=="184") problemchar=true; // ¸ badly detected, quick fix
if (keytext=="168") problemchar1=true; // ¨ badly detected, quick fix
s = Text.subString(0, CursorPos);
s.append(c);
s.append( Text.subString(CursorPos, Text.size()-CursorPos) );
Text = s;
++CursorPos;
}
BlinkStartTime = os::Timer::getTime();
setTextMarkers(0, 0);
}
}
breakText();
sendGuiEvent(EGET_EDITBOX_CHANGED);
calculateScrollPos();
}The quick fix uses 2 static boolean variables. To mimic the look of a real accent modifier, I think I could use a static boolean variable for each accent modifier. So when we press the modifier key, nothing would be printed and a flag would be activated, once the user press another key then it would print the proper accentued character.
Right now, I'm kinda of merging the two symbols when detected to create the accentued character.
Would it be really bad, i mean declaring statics for "flags" for the modifiers? Is there any other country keyboard that use accent modifier?
