Thiago: The IME support is in the plans, so thank you for the info. I am not there yet, but at least I can ask one question regarding the "surrounding" feature: how much text does it expect from the control? Is one line or paragraph enough?
Let me ask another question: is the current IME support in TextArea/TextField adequate? Thank you -andy From: Thiago Milczarek Sayão <thiago.sa...@gmail.com> Date: Friday, June 9, 2023 at 03:54 To: Andy Goryachev <andy.goryac...@oracle.com>, openjfx-dev <openjfx-dev@openjdk.org> Subject: [External] : Text Surrounding Hi Andy, I understand you're working on a Rich Text control. While working on IME (Input Method Editor) for Linux, I noticed that there is a feature called "surrounding" that it supports to give the IME information about the text being inputted. More info here: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/class.IMContext.html<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.gtk.org/gtk3/class.IMContext.html__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!IZFccRhWV8XWX4vpnBQktz-QE8YML3x-k5Spp9j9U2eFPTiD1MD3AeFXgMNL-MbNntUDEwa_uaQwdVzf0Sc2HOZmTlw$> It works like this: When user is typing using an IME language, the underlying IME (for example https://github.com/tlwg/ibus-libthai<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/tlwg/ibus-libthai__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!IZFccRhWV8XWX4vpnBQktz-QE8YML3x-k5Spp9j9U2eFPTiD1MD3AeFXgMNL-MbNntUDEwa_uaQwdVzf0Sc2kBsHxAM$>) may ask the Toolkit for the surrounding text and it should reply with: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/method.IMContext.set_surrounding.html<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.gtk.org/gtk3/method.IMContext.set_surrounding.html__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!IZFccRhWV8XWX4vpnBQktz-QE8YML3x-k5Spp9j9U2eFPTiD1MD3AeFXgMNL-MbNntUDEwa_uaQwdVzf0Sc2cQl7mM8$> That contains: - The text - The length - The cursor position within the text So this way the underlying IME can provide accurate suggestions using the user context. That would be a nice feature to have but it requires some work to retrieve it from the text-based control. Just letting you know about this, it may be out of the scope of your rich text work for now. -- Thiago.
