Richmond's Winter Project

[richmond62]

I spent far, far too much time outside with the chainsaw today slicing up some vast tree trunks so that they will fit in our fireplace, so did not manage much: but here are the "Semitic" vowels implemented as discussed yesterday:
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[richmond62]

Of course, at the moment one can ONLY enter text by using a mouse, trackball, or trackpad: which is far from what the thing should offer, as keyboard entry in essential, and has to be set up so that an end-user's "domestic" keyboard layout is irrelevant, so this will leverage rawKeyUp.

There's unlikely to be anything much more before Saturday/Sunday, so here's the stack "as is" in case anyone feels kinky enough to play around with it.

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Yum!
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[richmond62]

This button is redundant:
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As these syllabics:
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Are entered in the following way:
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This button is redundant:
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As these syllabics:
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Are entered in the following way:
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This button is redundant:
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As these syllabics:
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Are entered in the following way:
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Somehow overlooked this sequence:
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[richmond62]

Just a quick, new feature (as getting a bit bored with all that consonant implementation) before I go to bed:
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[richmond62]

Improved colourisation / highlighting:
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Code: Select all

on mouseEnter
   lock screen
   set the coloroverlay["color"] of me to red
   set the coloroverlay["opacity"] of me to "75"
   unlock screen
   set the backGroundColor of the last char in fld "fOUTPUT" to empty
   set the backGroundColor of fld "fOUTPUT" to red
end mouseEnter
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on mouseLeave
   set the outerGlow of me to empty
   set the colorOverlay of me to empty
   set the backGroundColor of fld "fOUTPUT" to empty
   set the backGroundColor of the last char in fld "fOUTPUT" to yellow
end mouseLeave
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on mouseUp
   answer "Do you want to DELETE all of the text?" with "No" and "Yes"
   if it is "Yes" then
      put empty into fld "fOUTPUT"
   end if
   set the backGroundColor of fld "fOUTPUT" to empty
   set the backGroundColor of the last char in fld "fOUTPUT" to yellow
end mouseUp

[richmond62]

Finished improved colourisation / highlighting for DIGITS, NUMBERS, and PUNCTUATION.
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ALL the Unicode glyphs from the Ethiopic range 1200-137F have now been implemented.

[richmond62]

The next piece of work is to implement syllables for Gurage (Unicode Ethiopic Supplement range 1380-139F)

I do NOT intend to implement Tonal marks during this initial SDLC.
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A quick look at that picture will show you that this involves duplet forms, so a modifier key will have to come into play when finalisation vocalisation.

[richmond62]

For instance the 'standard' Ethiopic for M + W + a looks like this:
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But an alternate ('sebabeit') looks like this:
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Obviously it would be ideal if end-users could choose which of the 2 forms they wanted in their text.

One of the ways to effect this is to encode the alternate version if the ALT/OPT key is DOWN when a Vowel button is clicked:
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[richmond62]

Rethinking things, any alternate forms should NOT be displayed ONLY when a user performs a mouseDown/mouseUp on a vowel button; all the display code needs to be shifted into another function so that alternates are displayed in the 2 boxes when a mouseEnter is performed.

I have copied the cardScript into a BBEdit document so that I can modify the 'KNITTING' command to make another command which I will call 'DISPLAYZ'
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https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/