[Bf-taskforce25] Dead Keys mapping

[Sven von Brand]

Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's two levels of event handling in Blender now. We still rely on a 
> proper functioning of the Ghost library, to evaluate all input on OS or 
> Windowmanager level. That info is passed on to Blender's event 
> handling, which already has space reserved to store utf encoded 
> characters.
>   
> Preventing rawkey hotkeys to be handled is a matter of proper layout of 
> the Blender internal "keymaps". Each has its own priority level, so 
> when you encounter conflicts it's a mere matter of disabling these keys 
> or remapping them.
>   

Maybe some user preferences could be used to allow a better use of the 
mapping, as
I have read, there's are a lot of changes for 2.5, and there's the plan 
to make hotkey's
customizable, it would be great to add keyboard layout preferences to these.

> There's also a function in our event system that checks events for 
> matching a "text input handler", which can be further refined to match 
> all cases well.
>   
> Needless to say; we'd need help in this area to test and validate it 
> all, preferably a very experienced coder. :)
>
>   

I'll help as much as I can, I am not very experienced, but hopefully I 
can help.

> -Ton-
>
>   
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Sven von Brand
Fedora Ambassador for Chile