Re: Keyboard shortcuts

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Irene Vatton wrote:

>> >Amaya lets you customize your keyboard mapping.
>> >You just have to define a file amaya.keyboard (Unix) or amaya.kb (Windows)
>> >in your AmayaHome directory.
>>
>> Right, but the problem is that I don't know of any mechanism for selecting
>> between keyboard profiles if you use more than one of them. Having a
>> distribution with several optional keyboard files would help, but there are
>> people using azerty keyboards, qwerty keyboards, and belgian keyboards, all
>> of whom can be expected to use the french version, so they still need to pick
>> a keyboard file.
>
>A configuration menu could suggest to chose a predefine amaya.keyboard
>or amaya.kb file and install it in the user environment.

Yes, this would make sense.

>> I will start to look at the code, but would appreciate any pointers...
>
>I suggest you have a look at the file Amaya/thotlib/dialogue/input.c
>The configuration file is read by InitTranslations to generate internal structures.
>ThotInput uses these internal structures to call associated functions.
>

great. Many thanks.

cheers

chaals