Re: [MACTCL] Dvorak - Qwerty input method?

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

On 2011-08-15, at 5:49 PM, Ned Deily wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience using Aqua Tk (either Carbon or Cocoa) 
> with the Mac OS X Dvorak - Qwerty Cmd input method.  (See System 
> Preferences -> Language & Text -> Input Sources).  The idea behind it is 
> to have a Dvorak keyboard layout except when the Command key is pressed 
> (as when using keyboard accelerators): then the keyboard reverts to a 
> standard Qwerty layout.  I had never run into it before until someone 
> submitted this Python issue:
> 
>    http://bugs.python.org/issue12748
> 
> As I noted in the issue, I'm really not keen on tracking this down 
> further myself at the moment but I thought I'd bring it up here in (1) 
> to see if anyone else had any experience using this input method with Tk 
> apps (in particular, with text processing and keyboard menu 
> accelerators) and (2) to bring it to the attention of anyone who might 
> want to look into it sometime.

Just an FYI that I tried this out and could confirm it with older builds, but not the latest 8.5.10 Cocoa (ActiveTcl 8.5.10.1 in particular), which includes fixes from Kevin Walzer on command-key handling.

I tested this by using the (wacky) Dvorak-Qwerty Cmd layout in tkcon, and finding that Cmd-N (new window) and Cmd-T (new Tab) still worked while regular input was Dvorak layout.

Jeff