Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Windows beta build to test Input Method support?

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

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:47:51PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 04:05:36AM +0100, John Popplewell wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:41:16AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > > John P. -- have you got a moment to throw together a beta EXE based on
> > > what's in CVS, so people can play with Mark's new IM feature?
> > 
> > I've put together a complete zip archive here:
> 
> Thanks, John!
:-)

> I discovered a couple bugs during testing.  It appears the Windows
> Korean IME grabs the Right-Alt event and not letting Tux Paint switch
> into the Hangul mode.  I think I'll make Left-Alt switch to Hangul mode
> also, so Left-Alt can be used when Windows won't pass Right-Alt events.
OK, sounds good.

> Also, a certain key sequence is crashing Tux Paint in Korean language
> mode.  I'll need to fix that.
Ah, OK.

> Something I realized is that the path loading of *.im files is
> hard-coded at compile-time, which doesn't work very well for Windows
> programs that needs to be able to run from any drive/path
> (C:\Program Files\ can be moved.)  Yet *.im files are loading fine at
> runtime, regardless of where it's run from.  Is this intentional, and
> how does this work?  If not, why does it work?! =P
I have to confess I didn't look at your changes very closely - it seemed
to be working so I shipped it!

I took a proper look at the code and see that you use IMDIR as a prefix
in the C source. Makefile sets it to "im/" when building the
redistributable version (bdist-win32). This is the same way that the
DATA_PREFIX, DOC_PREFIX and LOCALE_PREFIX work.

Looks like you just copied and tweaked the existing Makefile stuff,

regards,
John.