changing the keyboard layout?

[danielrr]

Is there a way to change between the installed keyboard layouts using livecode? (this is useful when you want the user to write in different languages in different fields)

Daniel

[richmond62]

As far as I'm aware the only way to do this would be to trap rawKeyDown and/or rawKeyUp in fields:

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Here's the stack.

I'm afraid, for a whole keyboard this will involve a lot of work: I know because of my 8 year's work
on my Devawriter Pro:

http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/home.html

I'm a "lazy toad", so this stack will ONLY trap for the key that produces a "q" on an English-language keyboard ('a' on French and German ones).

[richmond62]

The big ADVANTAGE of this method is that you can force whatever
keyboard layout you wish on your end-user, regardless of what
their "home" keyboard and/or keyboard layout is.

No more headaches any more.