[Unified-im-api-devel] Re: [Uim] A proposal of unified input method C API.

[Zhe Su]

Hi,
  Ok. I'll try to add surrounding text support in SCIM and Unified IM
API. So could you please give me a proposal of the API? Is it enougth
to implement it just like what gtk immodule does?

Regards
James Su


On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 01:54:29 +0900, TOKUNAGA Hiroyuki <tkng at xem.jp> wrote:
> # Please reply to unified-im-api-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:26:46 +0800
> James Su <suzhe at tsinghua.org.cn> wrote:
> 
> >   For the feature of surrounding, we considered it some time ago. But
> > because it's hard to implement in some framework, eg. XIM, IIIMF, SCIM
> > etc., and this API is designed for all possible frameworks. So we must
> > ensure that at least the major frameworks can support this API.
> 
> I think that newly created API shouldn't restrected by old frameworks.
> Maybe we can't support surrounding text in XIM(I don't know much about
> XIM, so I can't assert). But, there will be a way to support surrounding
> text. For example, surrounding text related function may fail if user
> uses a XIM server, will be one answer. If an IM developer knows
> 'surrounding text related function may fail', there's no problem.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> TOKUNAGA Hiroyuki
> tkng at xem.jp
> http://kodou.net
> 
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