Re: [ros-dev] kbswitch update

[Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo]

nor did i

but its better to be warned :)

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle(a)yahoo.fr>
wrote:

>   I didn't get this message at all.
>
>  Kind regards, Sylvain Petreolle
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>  *De :* Richard Campbell <betam4x(a)gmail.com>
>  *À :* ReactOS Development List <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
>  *Envoyé le :* Vendredi 4 décembre 2015 8h57
>  *Objet :* Re: [ros-dev] kbswitch update
>
>  Hello!
>
>  Haven't been paying too much these days to ROS (wife, kids, job), but fyi
>  i know your email ended up in spam.  Gmail says this:
>
>  *Why is this message in Spam?* It has a from address in aol.com but has
>  failed aol.com's required tests for authentication.
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1(a)aol.com
> >   wrote: 
>  Hi all,
>  I'm just digging into kbswitch and have several questions (later).
>
>  The major issue: kbswitch affects all windows at once, while it should
>  change the input language only for the current (focused) window.
>
>  I assume that kbswitch must preserve the active window, so that it can
>  know where to apply changes, and to re-activate that window when done. As I
>  don't know what's already implemented, I wrote a simple test program, using
>  GetForegroundWindow() to determine the active window (hwnd),
>  GetWindowThreadProcessId() to get the related process handle, and
>  GetKeyboardLayout() to get the keyboard/language handle (hkl).
>
>  Tested on WinXP and ReactOS, the output looks correct. The hkl seems to be
>  composed of two words (hi: language and low: layout), which are always the
>  same on ReactOS. On XP a different keyboard layout can be used for a
>  language, but I cannot decipher the resulting encoding of the layout. As
>  soon as I try to change the layout for a language on ReactOS, kbswitch
>  shows the *layout* name, not the *language* name.
>
>  Q: Can somebody try to find out how to convert a HKL into language and
>  layout id's and/or names? (see GetLayoutIDByHkl)
>
>  Q: Is kbswitch notified of focus changes, and if so: how?
>  Then above sequence can be used to identify the related thread's setting,
>  and update the tray icon and menu accordingly.
>
>  Q: Is every process/thread already assigned a *private* hkl?
>  If not, this feature must be implemented before further updates.
>
>  So much for now
>  DoDi
>
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