[Uim] Using Subwindow & IM Specific widget.

[Kazuki Ohta]

Hi, ALL.

Recently, PRIME(Predictable Input Method Engine) 0.8.5 and 0.9.3 was released. 
New version of PRIME has the impressive function that can show the use case 
of the preedit string. 

Screen Shot: http://www.geocities.jp/ep3797/snapshot/tmp/prime-0.9.3-01.png

Now usecase is shown by using candidate window(in scim, lookuptable), but I 
think this is not the proper place. So I want to implement the "subwindow" to 
show the extra information of candidates or preedit. This is what like this.

Screen Shot: 
http://mover.cool.ne.jp/others/uim/2004-10-15-1097826815_1024x768_scrot.png

To achieve this, I came up with two implementation ways.
1. Using callback
export (im-activate-subwindow) and (im-deactivate-subwindow) to IMs, and 
export (uim_set_subwindow_cb) to frontends.

2. Add variable to candidate data struct
   struct uim_candidate_ {
       char *str;         /* candidate */
       char *heading_label;
       char *annotation;

       char *subwindow_data;
   };

Hey, which do you think is the better solution, committers?

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And the Komatsu-san, the author of PRIME also requested to use the widget for 
registering the words to the dictionary. This is IM-specific widget, so 
creating public API for this purpose is a bit odd. So I suppose excuting 
other APP like this seems good for me.

(im-activate-widget "prime-dictregister-dialog" "args")
(im-deactivate-widget "prime-dictregister-dialog")

Is there any comment on this?


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Kazuki Ohta : mover at hct.zaq.ne.jp