Another thought: we could also try refreshing every 125msec for 5
seconds after the first change is detected. It's a bit yuck perf-wise
but would probably be pretty transparent to the user.
In testing, this looks good. It means the changes appear as soon as
ready, without substantial delays or performance issues. Polling this
makes me feel a bit dirty, but I'll just take a shower and be okay.
As Keyman now monitors the Windows keyboard list from Control Panel, it
is no longer sufficient to refresh the toolbar only when a Keyman
keyboard is updated, as at that point Windows has not refreshed its own
language list in the registry. Instead, we need to monitor changes to
the relevant registry key and then refresh when those changes are
'complete'.
There is a problem: there does not appear to be a good way to monitor
for changes to Windows language settings. WM_SETTINGCHANGE is sent when
a language is added by the user in Settings, but the actual change
happens asynchronously, and we are not notified when the changes are
complete.
We also do not get notifications when languages are added via APIs.
Given the async nature of the language profile changes, this leads to
race conditions when we try to refresh the OSK toolbar. My preferred
solution currently is to monitor the relevant key in a separate thread,
and wait 1 second post-changes to actually do the refresh.
Fixes#1843.
If there are so many keyboards installed that the menu would grow larger
than 3/4 of the screen height, then the menu will become scrollable.
[Windows] More tidyup and robustness for metro app support - debug cleanup and serialization of input (not quite finished)
[windows] Refactor serialized input code when used with key event thread model
[windows] Add consistent precompiled headers for other projects
[windows] Merge console window test into metro support
[Windows] Tidy up work and identify additional TODOs for metro-style app support
[Windows] Ensure error case falls through to default hook processing for console windows
[Windows] Refactor shared memory into memory mapped file so we can cross 32-64 bit boundary
[Windows] Tweaks to C++ security calls and parameters
[Windows] Start refactor of SerialKeyEvent* classes
[Windows] Rename to SerialKeyEventServer (refactoring)
[Windows] Complete refactoring of SerialKeyEventClient class
[Windows] Further encapsulation and cleanup with 'interfaces' to reduce header pollution
[Windows] Complete serialization fix with move of modifier state management from client thread to server thread to guarantee consistency
[Windows] Replace atom-based keyboard switching with memory mapped file indexed to avoid security constraints
[Windows] Fixup Left Alt+Shift interaction with serializer
[Windows] Use Windows 8.1 SDK for test
