Re: [Visualpython-users] More wxPython progress

For keyboard input, I translate keycode numbers from a US keyboard
into strings, so that pressing the Enter key returns the string
"enter".

If there is someone in the VPython community knowledgeable about
non-US keyboards and would like to contribute alternative translation
tables, I'd be delighted to make them accessible in the new VPython.
Take a look at the GitHub file

site-packages/visual_common/create_display.py

which contains the US keyboard translation table. Probably the
keyboard table should be imported from a file "keyboard-us.py", and
similarly for other tables. We could add to the site-settings.py file
options to specify what keyboard layout to use by default, and now
that we'll have pull-down menus we can give the end user a choice (or
maybe there's a way to detect the keyboard?).

One of the goals of vpython-wx is to make it a lot easier for people
to contribute to its further development. The old VPython depended on
a lot of multithreaded C++ code, but the new version has eliminated
the threading, which makes many things a whole lot simpler (and you
don't have to worry about a lot of now nonexistent potential threading
problems), and the new version has much of the key user interface
stuff written in Python.

Bruce Sherwood