Re: Allow missing components (or detect them in project)

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 22/01/2026 à 00:54, Bruce Steers a écrit :
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 at 23:21, Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@gambas- 
> basic.org <mailto:benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Le 21/01/2026 à 23:39, Bruce Steers a écrit :
>      >
>      >
>      > On Wed, 21 Jan 2026, 21:54 Bruce Steers, <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx>
>      > <mailto:bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
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>      >
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>      >                 You should pass it directly what you get from
>      >                 'Key.Shortcut'.
>      >
>      >
>      >     The only big bug in that program is i realised Key.Shortcut
>     letter
>      >     text is always upper case.
>      >
>      >
>      > I guess this upper case issue is a bug then?
>
>     Sort of.
>
>     Internally "a" and "A" have different key values.
>
>     The problem is that on the keyboard it's written "A", whereas the
>     key is
>     actually "a", and you have to use SHIFT to get an "A".
>
>     So Qt returns the code "A" when you press "A" or "a", as well as GTK+
>     where I add to do a conversion for that.
>
>
> I'm not sure i explained properly.
>
> The new Key.Send function "should" only send lower case if no Shift is 
> present
> So
> Key.Send("a")
> Key.Send("A")
> should both send lower case "a" because of no Shift+
> Respectively
> Key.Send("Shift+a")
> Key.Send("Shift+A")
> Key.Send("SHIFT+A")
> should all send upper case "A"
>
> The case of the Key.Shortcut string or what's used in Key.Send() command 
> should be irrelevant and only an upper case letter sent if Shift+ is 
> present.
>
>
>     I have to implement the reverse trick when interpreting the shortcut
>     passed to 'Key.Send()', otherwise there is no coherency.
>
>
> Is it not a simple as sending the text as upper or lower case depending 
> on the Shift+ being true
>
> Currently i get this result...
>    Key.Send("Shift+a")
>    Key.Send("Shift+A")
>    Key.Send("a")
>    Key.Send("A")
>
> aAaA
>
> but it should be AAaa
> The case is being controlled by what ever case the text sent is and not 
> by the presence of Shift+
>
> I don't know the c++ code but i think that all the converting you need 
> is to convert any letter to lower case if no Shift+ and upper if there is
>
> Respects
> BruceS

It's more complex than that, because not everybody has the same keyboard 
layout.

It's what I said: "A" and "a" are two different keys in the toolkit 
logic, whereas they are not on american and french keyboard (and 
others), and so does the shortcut representation, which is then no 
coherent anymore with 'Key.Code'.

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Benoît Minisini.