This allows me to easily support new keyboard layouts, even without knowing anything about given layout or language. So far I have implemented support for following layouts:
- English (en-US),
- Polish (pl-PL),
- German (de-DE),
- Russian (ru-RU).
Each KeyboardLayout subclass allows to:
- type text using given layout: void type(String text);
- get character associated with given key, based on current state of Caps Lock, Shift and right Alt keys: char getChar(int scanCode, boolean capsLock, boolean shift, boolean altGr);
It is important to remember about following limitations:
- user make sure that USB host uses the same layout as the application. Application has no way of knowing what layout is currently used by USB host.
- obviously, once you use a given layout, only characters defined for the layout are available, other characters will be ignored.
USB Remote already supports previously mentioned layouts. In case of some layouts it may be a good idea to change default placement of some of keys, but that would require a bit of experience with given layout.
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| German layout |
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| Polish layout |
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| Russian layout |
I'll release this version soon, along with some other minor fixes and improvements. Also, please let me know if you would like me to add other layouts.
Just wanted to ask - is there some specific place we can report issues with any of the apps?
ReplyDeleteAt this moment no. I probably should start some simple forum for such things. You can always send me an email to: contact@inputstick.com
DeleteWhat about the function keys (F1-F12) and other "special" keys. Would be nice to be able to "press" them as well.
ReplyDeleteThey are also there, you just need to use "<" and ">" buttons in top row to change what set of keys will be available between them. The only limitation is that you can't make some keys combinations like for example: "F1" + "1" because they can't be displayed at the same time.
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