Re: [Traverso-devel] supporting non qwerty layouts

[Nicola Döbelin]

> Hi list,
> 
> There are people who use different layouts on a qwerty keyboard (don't ask
> me 
> why, but hey, some people think 'different == cool' which includes me hehe
> (no, I do use the qwerty layout!))
> 
> So for example the G key on a NEO layout is located at the O or P key
> iirc.
> 
> This makes using Traverso the way it is intended to use a little
> bothersome.
> 
> It should however be easy to use a mapper function that maps the weird 
> keyboard layout back to qwerty layout. (basically when a key event enters
> the 
> InputEngine it's numeric value is translated to qwerty layout)
> 
> Do any of you guys use such a layout, and would it be of any use to
> implement 
> this?

IMO the best solution would be if keymaps could be loaded at runtime (maybe 
this works already). We could add some of the popular ones (e.g. the regular 
qwerty, a qwertz for Swiss/German layouts, and your fancy one), and in addition 
it would be easy for the users to customize their layout.

Cheers,
Nic

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