[Tuxpaint-devel] win32 test version with simple character composition

[John P. <jo...@jo...>]

Hi All,

I've had a go at fixing the input composition problem on Windows for
simple cases like Spanish and German (French? Italian?).

Seems to work OK on WinXP and Win98, and I believe it will work on
Win95, but I don't have a Win95 machine to test on.

Here is a link to a test version:
http://johnnypops.demon.co.uk/files/tuxpaint-0.9.15/tuxpaint-0.9.15-unicode-test.zip
(size 190K).

Just drop the replacement files over the existing ones in the tuxpaint
directory.

It includes a new 'tuxpaint.exe' and a new 'SDL.dll' with only the
'windib' driver and a small patch to make the Unicode field of
SDL_keysym contain a UTF-16 character. No extra dependency e.g. iconv
was required for 'SDL.dll' as I was able to use MultiByteToWideChar() to
convert from the code-page dependent ANSI character to a UTF-16 one.

I also had to make a few changes to Tux Paint as the existing code
wasn't handling the characters from SDL correctly (as bill! predicted).

The modified Tux Paint code builds OK on Linux, and the non-composed
characters above 127 are correctly displayed. I assume the faulty
composed characters are a problem with the X11 back-end and will look
into it later.

Here is a link to patches for SDL-1.2.9 and the current Tux Paint CVS:
http://johnnypops.demon.co.uk/files/tuxpaint-0.9.15/unicode-patch-sdl-and-tuxpaint.zip

I would appreciate some testing. I've tried with German (I've got a
German keyboard for testing) and Spanish (learning the keys by
trial-and-error). You might need to experiment with the fonts a bit -
not all of them display correctly.

Good Luck, I'm off to get some sleep,
John Popplewell.
P.S. I tried to have a look at SDL_inputmethod first, but was unable to
get the source-code from SourceForge :-(