spiegel-keyman/linux/mcompile/keymap

This is a proposal to rewrite mcompile for Linux. For this we need to query the base keyboard data from the Linux platform, then rewriting the keyboard .kmx using the same approach as is done in mcompile for Windows, but working from the data from the x11 keyboard on Linux.

Ideally, we'd rewrite mcompile to be cross-platform (Windows, Linux, macOS), so that the keyboard interrogation would be separated from the .kmx rewriting, at least to some degree. Nevertheless it would probably be easiest to start from a standalone implementation. Sample program that reads US basic keyboard and compares to key value group

Keymap

TODO check if US basic is the right Keyboard to compare with TODO deadkeys don't work yet TODO path for xkb/symbols as compile time option in meson TODO check how many/which shift states we use ( at the moment we read all shiftstate-columns of US but then use only 2 colums (non-shift + shift) then use as many colums for Other ) TODO define folder to store File_US.txt" in and find better name TODO get rid of GTK functions that are deprecated and use X11 instead TODO retrieve name of Other keyboard and use appropriate name instead of "Other" TODO mcompile.cpp: open mcompile -u - option - do we need that? TODO check if I can use files from some other keyman path instead of a copy in keymap ( e.g. filesystem.h exists elsewhere) TODO remove kbdid and kbd for Linux TODO shiftstate-count TODO keymap SplitToV.cpp exchange 4 with genaerated shiftcount TODO shift-statevector TODO Do I need HKL for Linux / can I just use a void* or remove HKL ?? TODO typeddef of KMX_HKL - can I delete all m_hkl from classes? TODO define what to return when SC/VK is not found in get_VirtualKey_Other_From_SC,... TODO check if passed All_Vectpor as ptr/ref not as value e.g. in KMX_CharFromVK, KMX_VKUSToVKUnderlyingLayout, KMX_ImportRules ToDo in get_VirtualKey_Other_From_SC: what if we use column 3(altgr) and 4 (shift+altgr) ?? TODO where to store VK_CANCEL.... in km_types.h or elsewhere? ToDo check up to 8 shiftstates ( find symbols-file with 8) TODO get_position_From_VirtualKey_US: take care of the other shiftstates ToDo make this better!!! get_VirtualKey_Other_From_SC ToDo use _free(keyvals); g_free(maps);

TODO next: - change mapping (win-lin) for writing All_Vector - compare entries in rgKey ( are the same rgKey[]filled? it is OK from rgKey[65]-rgkey[90] but for other values??? ) - mc_import-rules (from ~ l. 790) see if everything gives the same result on win-Lin - check if I use char16_t everywhere instead of wchar_t or char - replace GDK - see in which files I can put some functions (e.g. incxstr) that were duplicated or even #include their original location - remove testing functions - remove USE_GDK - what is wrong with kp->dpBitmapOffset/BitmapSize ? TODO ...

./mcompile -d /Projects/keyman/keyman/linux/mcompile/keymap/mcompile_test.kmx bla.dll 0407 /Projects/keyman/keyman/linux/mcompile/keymap/mcompile_test_out.kmx

./mcompile -d /home/mcompileTest/Source/mcompile_test.kmx bla.dll 0407 /home/mcompileTest/Source_after_run_mcompile/mcompile_test_out.kmx