[Mono-winforms-list] [Mono-dev] on-the-spot Input method editing in mono WinForms

[tom hindle]

Hi all,

I redone this in a more sensible way, rather than adding 
programmatic hooks into System.Windows.Forms.dll, win messages are
emitted by mono for preedit notification when doing on-the-spot IME.

Hence no publicly visible api has changed. A user application can 
just override winproc if it cares about on-the-spot preediting.

Please could someone review (and commit if ok) this patch?

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557268

Thanks
Tom

On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 16:38 -0700, Tom Hindle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to implement in a custom control on-the-spot Input method
> editing. The Control is driven by WinForm events - although all the
> drawing is completely custom.
> 
> I have had a first stab at adding support to mono's X11 classes to allow
> a custom control to get at this information. I've attached the (not
> finished) initial patch for comments and suggestions.
> 
> I have also attached a small test program which I use for testing this.
> For which I run it with:
> XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM" 
> MONO_WINFORMS_XIM_STYLE=on-the-spot mono TestApp.exe
> 
> I have been testing with Scim using 'Amharic' and 'Chinese (Simplified)
> - Wubi' (note: mono winforms seems to have problems rending Amharic -
> but it's good enough for testing).
> 
> What I would like to know is what are the changes of accepting a patch
> which allows custom controls to hook into mono's XIM use? 
> 
> I have currently put externally access-able classes in a
> System.Windows.Forms.X11 namespace, it this the right thing to do?
> 
> Another thing which I think may be necessary is the ability to have a
> control specific xim or a least to be able to switch xim in application
> code ( currently it seems to be one per applications) This would allow
> some controls to do on-the-spot and some to do an alternative method
> like off-the-spot.
>  
> Thanks
> Tom
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