Re: Determining if a special input method is active - was Detecting double byte input

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Wed Apr 13 21:00:04 2005

Please be more specific about what the problem is. It really sounds
like you are trying to tiptoe around actually supporting text
encodings. That'll  be easy to get 90% correct, but good luck with the
last 10%. :) You might be interested to know these trivia tidbits:
- CFStrings and NSStrings are interchangeable
- Carbon can render a CFString without glitches, even if there are
Japanese or other Unicode characters in it
Trying to get this to work based on which input method is active is
almost certainly a broken approach.


On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:36 AM, John Pattenden wrote:

>  I think I've narrowed down the problem I want to solve after reading
> some pretty informative posts on the list.
>
>  Here is a piece of a post from Douglas Davidosn
>
> "Now, in most cases the key events will come back to the view either
> as insertText: (for ordinary key presses with an ordinary keyboard) or
> as doCommandBySelector: (for special keys like delete, return, etc.),
> as the NSResponder.h comments mention.  However, if a special input
> method like Kotoeri is active, then something else will happen.  To
> handle those cases, NSTextView conforms to the NSTextInput protocol."
>
> So what I'd like to know ahead of time is if a "special input method"
> is active.
>
> This is highly specific need related to sending characters to
> Carbon/QuickDraw from Cocoa.
>
> I want to let characters pass through if no  "special input method" is
> active and do something else otherwise..
>
> Command Space toggle between modes and presumably sets some sort of
> system global, is that what I need to get at?
>
> John Pattenden
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