key..... lacks Qt mapping

[Christian Helmuth]

Hello Cedric,

On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 14:42:22 CET, ttcoder at netcourrier.com wrote:
> I'm reaching "alpha" stage (or a good approximation thereof) of my "distro" project at last, added a
> depot manager that mimics the one in ScultOS, so that the distro can download and use the
> wealth of packages provided on genode.depot.org.
> Greatly enjoying my newfound ability to use that software :-)

That's great to hear - congrats!

> but the one
> issue that remains is one I can't figure out so far :
> keyboard input (mostly) does not work, in Falkon and qt5_textedit (I'm assuming, all Qt apps).
> 
> I'm hitting this warning:
> 
> 	https://github.com/cproc/qt5/blob/018e7c70f8d5bb5e000acf203d843317a6394a7d/qtbase/src/plugins/platforms/genode/qgenodeplatformwindow.cpp#L256
> 
> Thought of filing a ticket in cproc/qt5/ or in genode-world/, but the most likely
> explanation is that I'm doing something wrong during system integration.
> 
> That's in 23.05 ; in 23.08 I can't get networking to function (with ipxe_nic_drv or with the newer pc_nic_drv from the depot)
> which precludes downloading newer packages instead of re-using the 23.05 revisions.
> 
> I'll try 23.11 in the next couple weeks.
> 
> Symptoms and code paths:
> - 'modifier' keys listed in the QGenodePlatformWindow::_map_key switch() do work (I can move the cursor with the arrow keys, delete)
> - however, all letters, digits, punctuation, spacebar, fail to work, and output a warning to LOG
> - each time, the warning says e.g.  "key  KEY_A,18 U+fffe lacks a Qt mapping"
> - it's interesting that the unicode is always "fffe"
> - so the Input::Keycode is correct (it says KEY_A, KEY_B, etc)...
> - but the Codepoint.value is always incorrect (it's always fffe) ?
> 
> I'm not setup for working with Qt, so can't add instrumenting in the lib itself or the apps.
> I was able to find the warning() despite github erroring out on "we're reindexing the site,
> please come back later" because that file happened to be listed in the recent commits :-)
> 
> I'm probably doing something wrong, but what ?
> Only thing I can think of is...
> - unseen problem when downloading/configuring Qt5 apps, compared to the way SculptOS does it ?
> - problem with underlying configuration/system-integration ? I use nitpicker and event_filter as per basic .run file examples

You most likely missed to configure the event_filter <chargen> config
node correctly. A snippet from Sculpt /config/managed/event_filter
follows (can be found in the source tree at
repos/gems/sculpt/event_filter/pc).

  <config>
    <output>
      <chargen>
        ...
          <input name="usb"/>
        ...
        <include rom="en_us.chargen"/>  <!-- this may also be fr_fr.chargen -->
        <include rom="special.chargen"/>
      </chargen>
    </output>
    <policy label="ps2" input="ps2"/>
    <policy label="usb" input="usb"/>
  </config>

The chargen files are located in repoos/src/server/event_filter/ resp.
the genodelabs/src/event_filter archive.

Greets
-- 
Christian Helmuth
Genode Labs

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