##In the program code: 
 OGRE_LETTER_KEYCODES = [30, 48, 46, 32, 18, 33, 34, 35, 23, 36, 37, 38, 50, 49, 24, 25, 16, 19, 31, 20, 22, 47, 17, 45, 21, 44] ## Why such a weirdly ordered list for A-Z? 

 ## In the FrameListener code: 
 def showTestOverlay(self, show=True): 
     """Turns KS' test overlay on or off. Based on debug overlay.""" 
     overlay = ogre.OverlayManager.getSingleton().getByName('Niss/NissOverlay') 
     if overlay is None: 
         raise ogre.Exception(111, "Could not find overlay Niss/NissOverlay", "SampleFramework.py") 
     if show: 
         overlay.show() 
     else: 
         overlay.hide() 

 ## In FrameListener._processUnbufferedKeyInput(): 
         ## Test all letter keys. 
         for n in range(len(OGRE_LETTER_KEYCODES)): 
             keycode = OGRE_LETTER_KEYCODES[n] 
             if self._isToggleKeyDown(keycode,0.2): 
                 key_pressed = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"[n] 
                 self.UpdateInterface("Niss/TextInput",key_pressed,True) 
 
         if self._isToggleKeyDown(ogre.KC_SPACE,0.2): 
             self.UpdateInterface("Niss/TextInput"," ",True) 
         if self._isToggleKeyDown(ogre.KC_RETURN,0.2): 
             text_input = self.GetTextInput() 
             print "Output sent nowhere: " + text_input 
             self.UpdateInterface("Niss/TextInput","") 
             self.UpdateInterface("Niss/TextOutput","You typed: " + text_input) 
 
 ## Also under FrameListener: 
     def UpdateInterface(self,where,text,add_to_existing_text=False): 
         """Change part of the text in the interface.""" 
        element = ogre.OverlayManager.getSingleton().getOverlayElement(where, False) 
        if add_to_existing_text: 
            element.caption += text 
        else: 
            element.caption = text 
 
     def GetTextInput(self): 
        element = ogre.OverlayManager.getSingleton().getOverlayElement("Niss/TextInput", False) 
        return element.caption

Niss/NissOverlay 
 { 
   zorder 500 
   container BorderPanel(Niss/NissPanel) 
   { 
      metrics_mode pixels 
      vert_align bottom 
      left 5 
      top -150 
      width 790 
      height 145 
      material Core/StatsBlockCenter 
           border_size 1 1 1 1 
           border_material Core/StatsBlockBorder 
           border_topleft_uv     0.0000 1.0000 0.0039 0.9961 
          border_top_uv         0.0039 1.0000 0.9961 0.9961 
          border_topright_uv    0.9961 1.0000 1.0000 0.9961 
          border_left_uv        0.0000 0.9961 0.0039 0.0039 
          border_right_uv       0.9961 0.9961 1.0000 0.0039 
          border_bottomleft_uv  0.0000 0.0039 0.0039 0.0000 
           border_bottom_uv      0.0039 0.0039 0.9961 0.0000 
          border_bottomright_uv 0.9961 0.0039 1.0000 0.0000 
   } 
   container TextArea(Niss/TextOutput) 
   { 
         metrics_mode pixels 
         left 10 
         top 452 
         width 790 
         height 100 
         font_name TrebuchetMSBold 
         char_height 19 
         caption The time has come, the walrus said, to speak of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings. -Lewis Carroll 
         colour_top 1 1 0.7 
         colour_bottom 1 1 0.7 
   } 
   container Panel(Niss/BreakPanel) 
   { 
         metrics_mode pixels 
         left 10 
         top 560 
         width 780 
         height 1 
         material Core/StatsBreak 
   } 
   container TextArea(Niss/TextInput) 
   { 
         metrics_mode pixels 
         left 10 
         top 562 
         width 790 
         height 30 
         font_name TrebuchetMSBold 
         char_height 19 
         caption Input from the keyboard will go here. 
         colour_top 1 1 0.7 
         colour_bottom 1 1 0.7 
   } 
 }