Re: A status report on the current lyx-1.5.0svn support of CJK languages

[Abdelrazak Younes]

ChangGil Han wrote:
> Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> 
>> OK, then Georg is right about generating as many keypressEvent as there
>> are characters in the inputMethodEvent. Please apply this patch and try
>> again.
> 
> Your patch works here both in linux and in windows box!!!

OK, thanks for testing. It's committed but I think there's still some
work to do to support CJK correctly (see FIXMEs) and I count on you to
help us there ;-)

Abdel.


Author: younes
Date: Sat Feb 10 17:30:11 2007
New Revision: 17134

URL: http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/17134
Log:
Minimal support for systems with input method (CJK).

* GuiWorkArea::inputMethodEvent(): process a keyPressEvent() for each
character of the commitString().

Modified:
    lyx-devel/trunk/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.C

Modified: lyx-devel/trunk/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.C
URL:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/file/lyx-devel/trunk/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.C?rev=17134
==============================================================================
--- lyx-devel/trunk/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.C (original)
+++ lyx-devel/trunk/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.C Sat Feb 10 17:30:11 2007
@@ -575,14 +575,23 @@
                        << endl;

                int key = 0;
+
+               // FIXME Abdel 10/02/07: Remove?
                // needed to make math superscript work on some systems
                // ideally, such special coding should not be necessary
                if (text == "^")
                        key = Qt::Key_AsciiCircum;
-               // FIXME: Needs for investigation, this key is not really used,
-               // the ctor below just check if key is different from 0.
-               QKeyEvent ev(QEvent::KeyPress, key, Qt::NoModifier, text);
-               keyPressEvent(&ev);
+
+               // FIXME Abdel 10/02/07: Minimal support for CJK, aka systems
+               // with input methods. What should we do with 
e->preeditString()?
+               // Do we need an inputMethodQuery() method?
+               // FIXME 2: we should take care also of UTF16 surrogates here.
+               for (int i = 0; i < text.size(); ++i) {
+                       // FIXME: Needs for investigation, this key is not 
really used,
+                       // the ctor below just check if key is different from 0.
+                       QKeyEvent ev(QEvent::KeyPress, key, Qt::NoModifier, 
text[i]);
+                       keyPressEvent(&ev);
+               }
        }
        e->accept();
 }