[jsword-devel] proposal

[John Jacques]

DM Smith and Troy,

I would like to make the following change to UniTextEdit.java

 void jTextArea1_keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
      char typedChar = e.getKeyChar();
      String pushChar = null;
      statusBar.setText("");

      SWInputMethod inputMethod = (SWInputMethod)
imComboBox.getSelectedItem();

      pushChar = inputMethod.translate(typedChar);
      if (inputMethod.getState() > 1) {
          statusBar.setText("Compound '"+typedChar+"'");
          e.consume();
+      } else if( null == pushChar ) {
      } else {
          if (pushChar.length() > 1) {
              e.consume();
              jTextArea1.insert(pushChar,
jTextArea1.getCaretPosition());
          }
          else e.setKeyChar(pushChar.charAt(0));
      }
  }

My reason is as follows:

I would like to be able to type characters in the current locale in the
editor.  With the greek prepositions, for example, it would be best to
have a different flash card for each case.  To accomplish this, I would
like to indicate the case of the object of the preposition in the
"word".

	ὑπο,ὑπ',ὑφ' gen.

My plan is to use a control sequence to change modes, something like
ctrl-t.  Since the control sequence is not intended to generate a
character, I would like to be able to return 'null' from the translate()
method and have UniTextEditor.java ignore it.

Is this acceptable?  Would it break other uses of UniTextEdit?