Keyboard language

[marksmithhfx]

Hi, does anyone know if you can detect the users preferred language for desktop apps? I'd like to know if the user is using British/Canadian/United States english.

Thanks
Mark

[richmond62]

Would that be on MacOS, Windows or Linux, as I suspect the answer in each case may be different?

[marksmithhfx]

Would that be on MacOS, Windows or Linux, as I suspect the answer in each case may be different?

Good question Richmond, MacOS

[SWEdeAndy]

Hi Mark! Would any of this get the result you need?

To get preferred language:

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put "defaults read -g AppleLanguages | sed -n " & quote & "2p" & quote & " | tr -d ," into tLine
put shell(tLine)

To get current keyboard layout:

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put "defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist AppleSelectedInputSources | egrep -w 'KeyboardLayout Name' |sed -E 's/^.+ = \" & quote & "?([^\" & quote & "]+)\" & quote & "?;$/\1/'" into tLine
put shell(tLine)

[jmburnod]

Hi All,
What about Info.plist file ?
Edit: OK doesn't work on windows
Best regards
Jean-Marc

[richmond62]

You could ask the end-user to press 3 or 4 keys and compare keyUps against a lookup table.

[richmond62]

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I wonder, if down in the undergrowth?
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Playing around with RevMedia 4 on MacOS 10.7.4 as I tend to do in my lunch break
I can see Keyboard synching at work.
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Keyboard synching got turned off . . .

I wonder if there is an easy way to turn it on again programmatically?

Two questions:

1. Why was it not preserved as an option?

2. Why, whenever I encounter the word 'modern' do I cringe?

[richmond62]

HyperCard broke several moulds and was fairly iconoclastic,

and that was its greatest strength . . .

I wonder why LiveCode seems to have lost sight of that, and is falling
over backwards to:

be "inline with modern practice" . . . ?

A great pity really.

[marksmithhfx]

Hi Mark! Would any of this get the result you need?

To get preferred language:

Code: Select all

put "defaults read -g AppleLanguages | sed -n " & quote & "2p" & quote & " | tr -d ," into tLine
put shell(tLine)

To get current keyboard layout:

Code: Select all

put "defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist AppleSelectedInputSources | egrep -w 'KeyboardLayout Name' |sed -E 's/^.+ = \" & quote & "?([^\" & quote & "]+)\" & quote & "?;$/\1/'" into tLine
put shell(tLine)

Thank you Andreas, they both work perfectly. The first returned "en-CA" on one of my laptops and "en-GB" on the other. The second one returned "British" for both of the them (and that is correct since I started using the GB keyboard on both). My need was to see if the user preferred GB english spelling ("colour", "favourites", "grey") or North American english spelling ("color", "favorites", "gray") and this will do it.

Cheers,
Mark

[marksmithhfx]

Hi All,
What about Info.plist file ?
Edit: OK doesn't work on windows
Best regards
Jean-Marc

Hi J-M, I'm not sure. How does one investigate info.plist?

Thanks
Mark

[jmburnod]

Hi Mark
Sorry i missed your post.
info.plist file is generated when you compile an app for ios.
You may open it with textedit and change localization item.

Kind regards
Jean-Marc

[FourthWorld]

HyperCard broke several moulds and was fairly iconoclastic,

and that was its greatest strength . . .

I wonder why LiveCode seems to have lost sight of that, and is falling
over backwards to:

be "inline with modern practice" . . . ?

A great pity really.

HyperCard supported keyboard syncing?

[richmond62]

That I don't know.

But that was not the point of that remark.

[marksmithhfx]

Hi Mark
Sorry i missed your post.

No worries J-M. I usually only check in every few days anyway (never did discover if there was a way to be notified in email if a reply is posted to a post... is there a way to turn that on?).

This time I was actually developing a macOS app so I'm not sure if a plist is developed for that? Anyway, the terminal commands Andreas posted worked perfectly for the case I had in mind.

Cheers,
Mark

[richmond62]

macOS app bundles usually contain a plist:
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