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/*!
    \page qt-embedded-charinput.html

    \title Qt for Embedded Linux Character Input
    \ingroup qt-embedded

    When running a \l {Qt for Embedded Linux} application, it either runs as a
    server or connects to an existing server.  The keyboard driver is
    loaded by the server application when it starts running, using
    Qt's \l {How to Create Qt Plugins}{plugin system}.

    Internally in the client/server protocol, all system generated
    events, including key events, are passed to the server application
    which then propagates the event to the appropiate client.  Note
    that key events do not always come from a keyboard device, they
    can can also be generated by the server process using input
    widgets.

    \table
    \header \o Input Widgets
    \row
    \o

    The server process may call the static QWSServer::sendKeyEvent()
    function at any time. Typically, this is done by popping up a
    widget that enables the user specify characters with the pointer
    device.

    Note that the key input widget should not take focus since the
    server would then just send the key events back to the input
    widget. One way to make sure that the input widget never takes
    focus is to set the Qt::Tool widget flag in the QWidget
    constructor.

    The \l{Qtopia} environment contains various input widgets such as
    Handwriting Recognition and Virtual Keyboard.

    \endtable

    \tableofcontents

    \section1 Available Keyboard Drivers

    \l {Qt for Embedded Linux} provides ready-made drivers for the SL5000, Yopy,
    Vr41XX, console (TTY) and USB protocols. Run the \c configure
    script to list the available drivers:

    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc.src.emb-charinput.qdoc 0

    Note that the console keyboard driver also handles console
    switching (\bold{Ctrl+Alt+F1}, ..., \bold{Ctrl+Alt+F10}) and
    termination (\bold{Ctrl+Alt+Backspace}).

    In the default Qt configuration, only the "TTY" driver is
    enabled. The various drivers can be enabled and disabled using the
    \c configure script. For example:

    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc.src.emb-charinput.qdoc 1

    Custom keyboard drivers can be implemented by subclassing the
    QWSKeyboardHandler class and creating a keyboard driver plugin
    (derived from the QKbdDriverPlugin class). The default
    implementation of the QKbdDriverFactory class will automatically
    detect the plugin, loading the driver into the server application
    at run-time.

    \section1 Specifying a Keyboard Driver

    To specify which driver to use, set the QWS_KEYBOARD environment
    variable. For example (if the current shell is bash, ksh, zsh or
    sh):

    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc.src.emb-charinput.qdoc 2

    The \c <driver> argument are \c SL5000, \c Yopy, \c VR41xx, \c
    TTY, \c USB and \l {QKbdDriverPlugin::keys()}{keys} identifying
    custom drivers, and the driver specific options are typically a
    device, e.g., \c /dev/tty0.

    Multiple keyboard drivers can be specified in one go:

    \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc.src.emb-charinput.qdoc 3

    Input will be read from all specified drivers.
*/
