creating double keystroke letters

[Timothy Liptrot]

Hello Ukelele community!

I am working on a project to create a new keyboard layout for the Arabic written language. I'm looking for languages from which I could attach certain letters or outputs to one key pressed different numbers of times. For example, a single tap of the d key would produce the letter د while two taps of the d key within a fraction of a second produce ذ, a different but mnemonicly related key. For the letter a, it would be easiest for the program to cycle through five different forms, as follows ا أ إ آ ء. Another important function is for the shift key to cycle through letters backward, allowing the typer to cycle ء آ إ أ ا..  A description of the keyboard I'm trying to implement can be found here.

http://intellaren.com/intellark.

Can I do this using Ukelele? What other programs might allow me to do this, possibly in windows or UbuntU?

Thanks all!

[John Brownie]

No, you can't do this with a keyboard layout. You'd be looking at an Input Method for the Mac, which is not what Ukelele produces. It involves programming in Objective-C or Swift to get it done, so it's not simple.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/InputMethodKitFrameworkRef/_index.html
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#samplecode/NumberInput_IMKit_Sample/Introduction/Intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40007466

John
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