[ros-kernel] Re: Portuguese-Standard keyboard and others more

[Jason Filby]

Hi Paulo

Thanks for the keyboard contribution!

About Everaldo: this is great!! I'll contact him directly.
Do we have a list of the required icons for explorer.exe?

Cheers
Jason

correasilva at portugalmail.pt wrote:

>(attch:KbdTxt_ParsedKbdFormat.zip)
>
>
>hi!
>i got the mail contacts from ros-mailinglist and keyboard drive
sources - i hope
>i'm not spamming! ;) 
>
>My idea is not only trying to contribute with Portuguese-Standard,
as well
>suggest an easier way to contribute with keyboards  - i hope
wouldn't be a hard
>change at all
>
>I don't know C coding enough to help with complete code (i'm still
in the
>hello-world stage)
>
>What i'm sending are:
>- parsed .kbd-like keymap descriptions, pressuposed to be easy to
edit with a
>simple text editor (Portuguese, Brazilian, Italian, Hungarian,
Russian, Ucranian
>- can be more soon)- this assumes configurable qwerty-keygroup has
48 keys
>- Portuguese-Standard keymap configuration in a part of code (array
and/or
>string format) i'm not sure can be inserted into a keyboard dll
source, based on
>the parsed formats
>(maybe the c-code needs corrections, and for me is not problem
making a
>converter (in wxBasic)) from txt to embeddable c-code (i'm all the
time doing
>simple parsers like this...)
>
>the goal would be if code like this can be implemented on a driver
source can
>easily deal with it
>
>the driver should have no difficulties on using:
>- accented keys 
>- AltGr and Shift+AltGr combinations
>
>the contribution i'm trying to do is also about making keyboard
configurations
>more complete than would came with ms-windows standards (this can be
a very nice
>goal on ReactOS distributions!), complete as we get from BeOS, MacOS
and AmigaOS
>keyboards 
>
>another subject - about icons: Everaldo (www.everaldo.com) likes the
idea
>getting his icons distributed with ReactOS since his name and work
url would be
>in the credits   - in my oppinion, these icons looks good even on
32x32 pixels
>16 colours mode (generic vga)
>
>Paulo
>
>
>
>
>
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