[PATCH v2 06/28] text: Fix some text and input-method docs

Jan Arne Petersen jpetersen at openismus.com
Thu Apr 18 07:47:20 PDT 2013


From: Krzesimir Nowak <krnowak at openismus.com>

Signed-off-by: Jan Arne Petersen <jpetersen at openismus.com>
---
 protocol/input-method.xml | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 protocol/text.xml         | 36 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/protocol/input-method.xml b/protocol/input-method.xml
index 59ac244..3fc468c 100644
--- a/protocol/input-method.xml
+++ b/protocol/input-method.xml
@@ -37,20 +37,32 @@
     <request name="destroy" type="destructor"/>
     <request name="commit_string">
       <description summary="commit string">
-        Send the commit string text to the applications text model.
+        Send the commit string text to the applications text model and
+        set the cursor at index (as byte index) relative to the
+        beginning of inserted text.
       </description>
       <arg name="serial" type="uint"/>
       <arg name="text" type="string"/>
     </request>
     <request name="preedit_string">
       <description summary="pre-edit string">
-        Send the pre-edit string text to the applications text model.
+        Send the pre-edit string text to the applications text model. The commit
+        text can be used to replace the preedit text on reset (for example on
+        unfocus).
       </description>
       <arg name="serial" type="uint"/>
       <arg name="text" type="string"/>
       <arg name="commit" type="string"/>
     </request>
     <request name="preedit_styling">
+      <description summary="pre-edit styling">
+        Sets styling information on composing text. The style is applied for
+        length (in bytes) characters from index relative to the beginning of the
+        composing text (as byte index). Multiple styles can be applied to a
+        composing text.
+
+        This request should be sent before sending preedit_string request.
+      </description>
       <arg name="serial" type="uint"/>
       <arg name="index" type="uint"/>
       <arg name="length" type="uint"/>
@@ -60,6 +72,8 @@
       <description summary="pre-edit cursor">
         Sets the cursor position inside the composing text (as byte index)
         relative to the start of the composing text.
+
+        This request should be sent before sending preedit_string request.
       </description>
       <arg name="serial" type="uint"/>
       <arg name="index" type="int"/>
@@ -79,11 +93,10 @@
     </request>
     <request name="keysym">
       <description summary="keysym">
-        Notify when a key event was sent. Key events should not be used
-        for normal text input operations, which should be done with
-        commit_string, delete_surrounfing_text, etc. The key event follows
-        the wl_keyboard key event convention. State is a XKB keysym, state a
-        wl_keyboard key_state.
+        Notify when a key event was sent. Key events should not be used for
+        normal text input operations, which should be done with commit_string,
+        delete_surrounfing_text, etc. The key event follows the wl_keyboard key
+        event convention. Sym is a XKB keysym, state a wl_keyboard key_state.
       </description>
       <arg name="serial" type="uint"/>
       <arg name="time" type="uint"/>
@@ -94,9 +107,9 @@
     <request name="grab_keyboard">
       <description summary="grab hardware keyboard">
         Allows an input method to receive hardware keyboard input and process
-        key events to generate text events (with pre-edit) over the. This allows
-        input methods which compose multiple key events for inputting text
-        like it is done for CJK languages.
+        key events to generate text events (with pre-edit) over the wire. This
+        allows input methods which compose multiple key events for inputting
+        text like it is done for CJK languages.
       </description>
        <arg name="keyboard" type="new_id" interface="wl_keyboard"/>
     </request>
@@ -124,9 +137,10 @@
     <event name="surrounding_text">
       <description summary="surrounding text event">
         The plain surrounding text around the input position. Cursor is the
-        position within the surrounding text. Anchor is the position of the
-        selection anchor within the surrounding text. If there is no selected
-        text anchor is the same as cursor.
+        position in bytes within the surrounding text relative to the beginning
+        of the text. Anchor is the position in bytes of the selection anchor
+        within the surrounding text relative to the beginning of the text. If
+        there is no selected text anchor is the same as cursor.
       </description>
       <arg name="text" type="string"/>
       <arg name="cursor" type="uint"/>
diff --git a/protocol/text.xml b/protocol/text.xml
index dc86c16..508f8de 100644
--- a/protocol/text.xml
+++ b/protocol/text.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
         Sets the plain surrounding text around the input position. Cursor is the
         byte index within the surrounding text. Anchor is the byte index of the
         selection anchor within the surrounding text. If there is no selected
-        text anchor is the same as cursor.
+        text anchor then it is the same as cursor.
       </description>
       <arg name="text" type="string"/>
       <arg name="cursor" type="uint"/>
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@
     </request>
     <request name="reset">
       <description summary="reset">
-        Should be called by an editor widget when the input state should
-        be reseted, for example after the text was changed outside of the
-        normal input method flow.
+        Should be called by an editor widget when the input state should be
+        reset, for example after the text was changed outside of the normal
+        input method flow.
       </description>
       <arg name="serial" type="uint"/>
     </request>
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@
     </request>
     <enum name="content_hint">
       <description summary="content hint">
-        Content hint is a bitmask to allow to modify the behavior of the text input
+        Content hint is a bitmask to allow to modify the behavior of the text
+        input.
       </description>
       <entry name="none" value="0x0" summary="no special behaviour"/>
       <entry name="default" value="0x7" summary="auto completion, correction and capitalization"/>
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@
       <entry name="auto_capitalization" value="0x4" summary="switch to uppercase letters at the start of a sentence"/>
       <entry name="lowercase" value="0x8" summary="prefer lowercase letters"/>
       <entry name="uppercase" value="0x10" summary="prefer uppercase letters"/>
-      <entry name="titlecase" value="0x20" summary="prefer casing for titles and headings (can be language dependend)"/>
+      <entry name="titlecase" value="0x20" summary="prefer casing for titles and headings (can be language dependent)"/>
       <entry name="hidden_text" value="0x40" summary="characters should be hidden"/>
       <entry name="sensitive_data" value="0x80" summary="typed text should not be stored"/>
       <entry name="latin" value="0x100" summary="just latin characters should be entered"/>
@@ -102,10 +103,11 @@
     </enum>
     <enum name="content_purpose">
       <description summary="content purpose">
-        The content purpose allows to specify the primary purpose of a text input.
+        The content purpose allows to specify the primary purpose of a text
+        input.
 
-	This allows an input method to show special purpose input panels with extra 
-	characters or to disallow some characters.
+        This allows an input method to show special purpose input panels with
+        extra characters or to disallow some characters.
       </description>
       <entry name="normal" value="0" summary="default input, allowing all characters"/>
       <entry name="alpha" value="1" summary="allow only alphabetic characters"/>
@@ -164,10 +166,10 @@
     </request>
     <event name="commit_string">
       <description summary="commit">
-        Notify when text should be inserted into the editor widget. The text
-        to commit could be either just a single character after a key press
-        or the result of some composing (pre-edit). It also sets the new
-        cursor position (as byte index) relative to the inserted text.
+        Notify when text should be inserted into the editor widget. The text to
+        commit could be either just a single character after a key press or the
+        result of some composing (pre-edit). It also sets the new cursor
+        position (as byte index) relative to the beginning of inserted text.
 
         Any previously set composing text should be removed.
       </description>
@@ -191,7 +193,7 @@
       <description summary="delete surrounding text">
         Notify when the text around the current cursor position should be
         deleted. Index is relative to the current cursor (as byte index).
-        Length is the length of deleted text (as bytes).
+        Length is the length of deleted text (in bytes).
       </description>
       <arg name="serial" type="uint"/>
       <arg name="index" type="int"/>
@@ -254,9 +256,9 @@
         Notify when a key event was sent. Key events should not be used
         for normal text input operations, which should be done with
         commit_string, delete_surrounfing_text, etc. The key event follows
-        the wl_keyboard key event convention. State is a XKB keysym, state a
+        the wl_keyboard key event convention. Sym is a XKB keysym, state a
         wl_keyboard key_state. Modifiers are a mask for effective modifiers
-        (where the modfier indices are set by the modifiers_map event)
+        (where the modifier indices are set by the modifiers_map event)
       </description>
       <arg name="serial" type="uint"/>
       <arg name="time" type="uint"/>
@@ -312,7 +314,7 @@
 
   <interface name="text_model_factory" version="1">
     <description summary="text model factory">
-      A factory for text models. This object is a singleton global.
+      A factory for text models. This object is a global singleton.
     </description>
     <request name="create_text_model">
       <description summary="create text model">
-- 
1.8.1.4



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