[jsword-devel] proposal

[John Jacques]

The hot-key idea is closest to what I had in mind, although the original
intent was to use <CTRL-T> to toggle to Latin and then another <CTRL-T>
to toggle back to the previous IM.

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 03:28, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> John,
> 	Basically are saying that you would like to be able to type:
> 
> <CTRL-T>x
> 	And have 'x' be handled by the standard text control instead of 
> reinterpreted by the IM?  I think that's fine.  It keeps one from having 
> to change back to latin from the dropdown each time they want to go back.
> 
> 	If you had the idea to really SWITCH modes to latin (not just for the 
> following keystroke), then what do you think about just adding hotkeys 
> to the IM dropdown functionality?  We could enumerate (e.g. CTRL-1, 
> CTRL-2, etc.) or where we specify the display text for the IM, we could 
> also supply the hotkey.  What do you think?
> 
> 	-Troy.
> 
> 
> 
> DM Smith wrote:
> > There are certain characters that are not permitted in Unicode or in 
> > XML. It makes sense that the routine would ignore those characters.
> > 
> > John Jacques wrote:
> > 
> >> 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?
> >>
> >>
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