[Xvim-devel] Re: [help ]IMdkit/onthespot method

[Do H. S. <dh...@zi...>]

Hi ca'c ba'c,
DDa^y la` thu+ cu?a ta'c gia? IMdkit va` IIIMF.
Let see if he can help us.
Cheers,
So+n

On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Hidetoshi Tajima wrote:

> Hi Son,
> 
> Thanks for sending the mail and having used the IMdkit.
> 
> I'm very glad to get a chance to help you and your development of
> Vietnamese input method, so please feel free to ask any questions
> and bugs of the IMdkit as well.
> 
> I suppose both xcin and your xvim has been based on the very old
> version of the IMdkit about 5 or 6 years ago.
> 
> Now, we Sun have newer version of the IMdkit having gone through development
> and productization of our XIM server for Solaris, and recently in this
> September, we've open-sourced our implementation of the XI18N support, including 
> the source code of the XIM server and the IMdkit to X.Org, 
> 
> You may download a copy of sdk2-dev10.0.tar.gz tarball from 
> http://ftp.x.org/contrib/i18n/. Will you please get this and evaluate?
> If it is possible for you, I'd prefer to get you to use the version of the
> IMdkit in the sdk2 tarball in new xvim.
> 
> Having said that, however, it is also all right to keep the current IMdkit
> and to add on-the-spot and other new features into xvim. I'm glad to
> create patches to that version to the IMdkit if you encounter any problem
> during the development.
> 
> It is your call which way you will take, and again, I'm williing to help you
> in both cases.
> 
> Then, for your questions,
> 
> >I'm using IMdkit to write a XIM server for Vietnamese input.
> >Currently, I modified xcin to have root and overspot method for vietnamese
> >input method (http://xvim.sourceforge.net).
> >
> >Now I want to implement OntheSpot method to "xvim".
> >I read the APIs of IMdkit and can not find out how to implement this
> >method.
> >Could you give me a hint/doc/example on this method?
> 
> Surely. Basically, supporting on-the-spot is relatively easier than
> any other input styles for XIMserver, in that we don't have to create
> any GUI modules in the XIMserver side, but we can just create
> data structure of preedit and status
> 
> First of all, let me take a look at http://xvim.sourceforge.net and
> xvim source code. I'll look at the implementation of the IMdkit 
> there and evaluate how on-the-spot support can be added in.
> 
> >I'm looking forward to hearing from you and thank you very much for your
> >helps.
> 
> My pleasure! Have a happy hacking and Merry Christmas!
> 
> With regards,
> Toshi Tajima
>