[SCIM] gtk IM & reset ...

[Zhe Su]

Hi,
   As I said, the reset () behaviour depends on the input method
engine itself. Now only scim-m17n engine does not support reset. I'll
fix it as soon as m17n library is fixed to support it.
  And for now, you may download the source code from
http://sf.net/projects/scim. And we are busy moving our website from
freedesktop.org to sf.net and scim-im.org :-)

Regards
James Su


On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:27:49 +0000, michael meeks <mmeeks at novell.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 00:54 +0800, Zhe Su wrote:
> >   I found that when using gtk immodule, OOo will not ignore the key
> > release events which have no corresponding key press events.
> 
>         Yes - good catch - we've fixed this bug in OO.o :-) [ or at least, IMHO
> this is a rather hyper-ugly side-effect of the way gtk+ works, but we
> have worked around it in OO.o ].
> 
> >   I think this should be fix in OOo side, because other apps don't
> > have such behaviour.
> 
>         Sure - the reset method is also critical to us though.
> 
> > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:31:55 +0800, Zhe Su <james.su at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >   So, which input method engine are you using? scim gtk immodule
> > > itself should have no problem. The code is ok.
> 
>         I'm using the scim gtk2 input module. If, as you say the code is OK -
> can you explain why: when we invoke this backend module reset, we do not
> get the callback sequence that is expected, and we get with the
> (canonical) xim input method; that sequence is (as per
> gtkimcontextxim.c):
> 
> > > >         Contrast this to:
> > > >
> > > > gtk+/modules/input/gtkimcontextxim.cxx (gtk_im_context_xim_reset):
> > > >
> > > >         Which explicitely emits a 'Preedit End' type sequence: ie. a commit
> > > > followed by a 'preedit_changed' to a 0 length string.
> 
>         This:
> 
> static void
> gtk_im_context_xim_reset (GtkIMContext *context)
> {
> ...
> 
>   if (result)
>     {
>       char *result_utf8 = mb_to_utf8 (context_xim, result);
>       if (result_utf8)
>         {
>           g_signal_emit_by_name (context, "commit", result_utf8);
>           g_free (result_utf8);
>         }
>     }
> 
>   if (context_xim->preedit_length)
>     {
>       context_xim->preedit_length = 0;
>       g_signal_emit_by_name (context, "preedit_changed");
>     }
> 
>   XFree (result);
> }
> 
>         There seems to be no equivalent in scim & this causes problems.
> 
> > > >         Am I mis-understanding something ? or is this broken ? also - it
> > > > appears the download page for scim is defunct:
> > > >
> > > >         The links from here
> > > >                  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fScimDownload
> 
>         also - it'd be really nice if this started working again - I guess,
> more people than I have not been able to download any of the scim
> source:
> 
>         http://freedesktop.org/~suzhe/sources/scim-1.0.1.tar.gz
> 
> Yields:
> 
>         Not Found
>         The requested URL /~suzhe/sources/scim-1.0.1.tar.gz was
>         not found on this server.
> 
>         Thanks,
> 
>                 Michael.
> 
> --
>  michael.meeks at novell.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
> 
>