[Mono-winforms-list] patch for enabling primitive XIM text input

[Doug Rintoul]

Atsushi Eno wrote:
> Thanks for the details. Though I don't think I completely understand 
> the second issue
> (XIM event order matter), I am persuaded. Your patch is in svn (along 
> with my patch
> of course too).
>
Thanks for this. I am assuming that only the patch for the second 
problem is committed. Any thoughts on solving the tracking of the 
modification keys (control, alt, shift, etc)?
> I'm also getting into libX11 code, so if you have pointers to relevant 
> sources (probably
> in src/xlibi18n/* or modules/im/* ?) please give us them :)

These are the relevant sources. XIM is not an easy protocol to get your 
head around. I peppered the xorg code with printf statements to get a 
feel for the flow of processing.There is documentation at 
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11R6.9.0/doc/PDF/. This is for 
version 6.9.0 but XIM has not changed much for version 7.3 Xorg 
rearranged the documentation for version 7 and so there are no PDFs 
readily available for the internals of 7.3. I have generated pdfs from 
the postscript file available with the source if your are interested. 
However you can download the PDFs for 6.9 have have virtually the same 
thing. The docs you would interested in are xim.pdf, XIMTransport.pdf 
and i18nFramework.pdf. There are other docs dealing XKB which might be 
useful but not specifically applicable to XIM. The docs are very low 
level. I have not really found a good overview of XIM on the net. 
<http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11R6.9.0/doc/PDF/i18nFramework.pdf>

HTH
Doug Rintoul
SIL Intl.