[OM2008] Documentation for .kbd-files?

[Charles-Henri Gros]

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
> Konstantin wrote:
>> Is there any documentation available that describes the format of the .kbd-files
>>  the Illume-Keyboard uses? I'd like to build a german qwertz-layout (comes in
>> handy for writing SMS ;) ), but don't quite understand the format of the
>> corresponding keyboard config files.
> 
> AFAIK there's no docs about it, but it's quite easy... I suggest you
> starting editing the Default keyboard and as you can see there each key
> has a position (key x y) and the role of the key itself (normal, shift
> capslock).
> 
> So for example a code like:
>> key  5  0  10  10
>>   normal   q "q"
>>   shift    Q "Q"
>>   capslock 1 1
> 
> will put a key in the position (5,0) and that key will show a q in
> normal mode, a Q in shift mode and a 1 in capslock mode. Then while both
> using the normal and shift mode the char written will be checked with
> the dictionary, in the capslock mode the char will be directly prompted
> in the text field.
> 
> In fact you've to use something like this:
> 
> key $x-pos $y-pos 10 10
>     mode $char-to-be-shown-in-the-key $char-xcode-to-be-written
>     mode $char-to-be-shown-in-the-key "$char-to-be-checked-with-dict"
> 
> Btw I don't know what the 10 and 10 means (maybe the key size? But this
> seems strange since in the terminal keyboard they're set to 30 30) I've
> to ask this to Rasterman!

It is key size, but remember all is relative to the total keyboard size,
mentioned at the beginning of the file ("kbd x y")

-- 
Charles-Henri