How to change keyboard layout in vpythons keyboard input

[Avedis Neehus]

As stated in the title I'm looking for a way to change the keyboards layout to match my keyboard. If there is no simple switch, is there already code that projects keys from one layout to another? I'm also looking for code that that takes any key and concatenates its value to a string automatically. 

[Bruce Sherwood]

I don't know how to change the keyboard layout, but here is the documentation about accepting a keypress and adding it to a string:

http://www.glowscript.org/docs/VPythonDocs/keyboard.html

[Avedis Neehus]

It turns that no bijection between keysigns is possible, since some keys map into nothing (f.e 'shift + 0' equals '=' in my layout, but '' in the standart one). So my solution doesn't work. Also I read the doc, but it doesn't recognize multicharacters, which would have to be written out explicitly. My current idea is to use the clipboard and write the string in separate files, which doesn' seem very elegant. Considering that other types of keyboard layouts like 'QWERTZ' are fairly widespread, I'm sure implementing that feature would be much appreciated.

[Kevin Karplus]

In Python, keyboard mapping is usually handled by the operating system, though pypi has a module to give you full control (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/keyboard/).

You did not say what operating system you were using, nor why its keyboard mapping was not working for you.

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[Avedis Neehus]

I am using windows 10 v.1709 with a german QWERTZ layout. The keys I need that arent mapped correctly are: [];=

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2018-01-05 20:59 GMT+01:00 Kevin Karplus <kar...@soe.ucsc.edu>:

In Python, keyboard mapping is usually handled by the operating system, though pypi has a module to give you full control (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/keyboard/).

You did not say what operating system you were using, nor why its keyboard mapping was not working for you.

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On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 11:27 AM, 'Avedis Neehus' via VPython-users <vpython-users@googlegroups.com> wrote:

It turns that no bijection between keysigns is possible, since some keys map into nothing (f.e 'shift + 0' equals '=' in my layout, but '' in the standart one). So my solution doesn't work. Also I read the doc, but it doesn't recognize multicharacters, which would have to be written out explicitly. My current idea is to use the clipboard and write the string in separate files, which doesn' seem very elegant. Considering that other types of keyboard layouts like 'QWERTZ' are fairly widespread, I'm sure implementing that feature would be much appreciated.

Am Freitag, 5. Januar 2018 16:43:37 UTC+1 schrieb Bruce Sherwood:

I don't know how to change the keyboard layout, but here is the documentation about accepting a keypress and adding it to a string:

http://www.glowscript.org/docs/VPythonDocs/keyboard.html

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[Kevin Karplus]

I've seen a number of posts on the web about Windows 10 getting the keyboard layouts wrong.  Apparently changing the language, rebooting, then changing the language to the correct one and rebooting again sometimes fixes the problem.

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[Avedis Neehus]

When calling 'win32api.GetKeyboardLayout()' in the script I get the desired result (german layout). For all other applications the correct layout is also recognized, so I think the problem lies elsewhere.

2018-01-06 0:28 GMT+01:00 Kevin Karplus <kar...@soe.ucsc.edu>:

I've seen a number of posts on the web about Windows 10 getting the keyboard layouts wrong.  Apparently changing the language, rebooting, then changing the language to the correct one and rebooting again sometimes fixes the problem.

Kevin Karplus   kar...@soe.ucsc.edu    http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus

Undergraduate Director, Bioengineering and Bioinformatics
Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz

​Author of Applied Electronics for Bioengineers​

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