osx shadow keyboard layout support

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Issue migrated from trac ticket # 1171

component: platforms | priority: major | keywords: osx shadow keyboard

2016-04-16 08:54:22: antoine created the issue

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See #391#comment:12

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2016-05-21 06:15:48: antoine changed status from new to assigned

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2016-05-21 06:15:48: antoine commented

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Some fixes already: r12628 + r12626 + r12624. See also #1172.

Looks like there aren't virtual keycodes for most of the keys, so we will have to use something like this How to convert ASCII character to CGKeyCode.

Here are some of the missing keys: exclam quotedbl sterling dollar percent asciicircum ampersand asterisk parenleft parenright braceleft braceright underscore colon at numbersign asciitilde comma period slash less greater question notsign bar
'fr' layout: eacute egrave ccedilla agrave dead_circumflex one_superior two_superior section percent mu dead_diaresis degree currency horizconnector periodcentered dead_belowdot exclamdown oneeighth threeeights fiveeights seveneights trademark plusminus degree questiondown

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2017-02-16 17:21:08: antoine commented

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Related ticket: OSX client keyboard layout detection #1444

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Maybe we should also set the modifier flags on key events using CGEventSetFlags

Text_Input_Sources, of particular interest:

• kTISPropertyInputSourceLanguages
• kTISNotifySelectedKeyboardInputSourceChanged: ''''
• TISSelectInputSource : to set a particular layout. See for example LayoutTracker.

More links:

• pyobjc-framework-InputMethodKit: pyobjc wrapper for InputMethodKit
• input_source.py: list all input sources
• pykeycode: Python wrapper around the Mac TIS functions to convert between chars and keycodes
• Character code translation table for Mac/PC/Linux

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Don't have time, but this looks like it would help: pykeyboard mac (has a keymap for AZERTY)