Subject:
RE: Is there chinese input mechod for microwindow?
From:
"Jim Shiu" ####@####.####
Date:
26 Apr 2001 06:44:42 -0000
Message-Id: <002601c0ce1b$f52bef70$7201a8c0@shiu>
Dear Jacky,
What is the problem ?
Is there any error messages when you applied the patch file
downloaded from our ftp site to microwin 0.89pre7 ?
Or you got trouble in some other step ?
Please provide me some more details and thus we can do
any necessary fix.
Jim Shiu
Setabox Technology
-----Original Message-----
From: jacky ####@####.####
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 9:07 AM
To: ####@####.#### ####@####.####
Subject: Re: Is there chinese input mechod for microwindow?
in fact i have read this readme but the problem still have it.
So i want to know more deatil of the patch to install.
now the blow is the list of my platform.
linux redhat 6.2 I386 platform
microwindows version: 0.89pre7
microwindows font chinese version: 0.89pre2
X11 display setting for microwindows
tty keyboard for microwindows
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Your jacky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Shiu" ####@####.####
To: "'jacky'" ####@####.#### "'Greg Haerr'" ####@####.####
####@####.####
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 6:35 PM
Subject: RE: Is there chinese input mechod for microwindow?
> Dear Jacky,
>
> Attached please find the readme of our Chinese IME implemented to
> work with Nano-X API of Microwindows-0.89 pre7. It will help us a lot if
you can test
> it and let us know how it runs on you platform.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jim Shiu
>
> ================================================================
> Traditional Chinese Input Method Editor (IME) version beta 1
> for Nano-X API of Micriowindows
> ================================================================
> Installation guide
>
> This traditional Chinese Input Method Editor is for Nano-X API of
> Microwindows-0.89 pre7. In current version, it supports two input
> methods: Phone and ChangJei, in Big-5 codes. You can download
> this patch file from
>
> ftp://ftp.setabox.com/pub/chinese/ime/ime-beta-1.patch
>
> ==============
> Prerequirement
> ==============
>
> You must have following files to build your own Nano-X with
> Chinese display ability:
>
> microwindows-0.89pre7.tar.gz
> micorwindows-fonts-chinese-0.89pre2.tar.gz
>
> If you don't have such files, you can download these two files from
>
> ftp://ftp.microwindows.org/
>
> =============
> Quick Install
> =============
>
> 1) Untar the necessary files.
>
> tar zxvf microwindows-0.89pre7.tar.gz
> tar zxvf micorwindows-fonts-chinese-0.89pre2.tar.gz
>
> 2) Modify the line in microwin/src/config with
> HAVE_BIG5_SUPPORT = N
> to
> HAVE_BIG5_SUPPORT = Y
> in order to enable traditional Chinese fonts display.
>
> 3) Save ime-beta-1.patch in the parent directory of 'your microwin
directory'.
> Then type
>
> patch -p0 < ime-beta-1.patch
>
> to apply IME patch.
>
> 4) Change directory to microwin/src/ and finish the installation in the
following
> steps:
>
> make
> make install
>
> 5) Set NANOX_IME_PATH environment variable which will be used by IME:
>
> In bash:
>
> export NANOX_IME_PATH='your microwin directory'/src/bin/ime
>
> In csh:
>
> setenv NANOX_IME_PATH 'your microwin directory'/src/bin/ime
>
> ps: You can put this line in .bash_profile or .login, so that you don't
> need to set this environment variable every time you login.
>
> =======
> Testing
> =======
>
> If you want to see if your system can work correctly, you can execute
> microwin/src/demos/kbd/demo1 or microwin/src/demos/kbd/demo2.
>
> ./demo1
>
> or
>
> ./demo2
>
> In demo1, if you can see a new window when you press Ctrl-Space, your
installation
> is successful. In demo2, you can see a terminal window. When you move your
mouse
> into this window and press Ctrl-Space, you can have a Chinese input
editor, and
> you can type Chinese word in this terminal window.
>
> ===============================================
> Modify Your Application to Accept Chinese Input
> ===============================================
>
> Because a Chinese character is double-byte encoded, something special must
be done
> to handle these Chinese characters. During the input process, the first
byte of
> Chinese characters must be buffered, and a complete Chinese character can
not be
> composed correctly until the arrival of the second byte. In our system,
whenever
> the keystroke event, GR_EVENT_KEYSTROKE, occurs, The 'ch' field of the
keystroke
> event must be checked to see if this value becomes MWKEY_BIG5. If 'ch'
field
> becomes MWKEY_BIG5, the value of field 'scancode' will be a part of a
Chinese
> character.
>
> Sample:
>
> void writeChinese(char ch)
>
> static char ChineseChar[2] = {'\0', '\0'};
>
> /* support BIG5 */
> if ( ChineseChar[0] != '\0')
>
> ChineseChar[1] = ch;
> GrText(w, gc, 10, 10, ChineseChar, 2, GR_TFTOP);
>
> ChineseChar[0] = '\0';
> return;
> }
> if ( (unsigned char)ch >= 0xA1 && (unsigned char)ch <= 0xFE )
> ChineseChar[0] = ch;
> return;
> }
> }
>
> void Handler(void)
>
> GR_EVENT wevent;
> GR_EVENT_KEYSTROKE *kp;
> unsigned char buf[LARGEBUFFER];
>
> GrGetNextEvent(&wevent);
> switch(wevent.type)
> ...
> case GR_EVENT_TYPE_KEY_DOWN:
> kp=(GR_EVENT_KEYSTROKE *)&wevent;
> /* toss all special keys*/
> if (kp->ch == MWKEY_BIG5)
>
> writeChinese(kp->scancode);
> }
> else
>
> if (kp->ch & MWKEY_NONASCII_MASK)
> break;
> *buf = kp->ch & 0xff;
> write(pipeh, buf,1);
> break;
> }
> ...
> }
> }
>
> =========
> Todo List
> =========
>
> 1. Add a resource file to record some environment settings.
> 2. Modify the UI of our programs.
> 3. Improve IME API.
>
> =====================
> Supporting Institutes
> =====================
>
> Many thanks to go to Setabox Co., Ltd. and CML (Communication and
> Multimedia Laboratory, http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/) in the
> Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of
> National Taiwan University for supporting this porting project.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jacky ####@####.####
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:52 PM
> To: Greg Haerr; ####@####.####
> Subject: Re: Is there chinese input mechod for microwindow?
>
>
> Hi, Haerr, I have seen your mail, and I am greatly interested
> in the chinese inputting method, could you mail to me a copy,
> thanks a lot.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Haerr" ####@####.####
> To: "fuzhenyu" ####@####.#### ####@####.####
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:35 AM
> Subject: Re: Is there chinese input mechod for microwindow?
>
>
> > : I used the Assabet and Armlinux,I have download microwindow successful
> to
> > : assabet.
> > : I want to know How can i input chinese in microwindow.
> >
> > I have an unintegrated chinese input method editor for the Nano-X
> > API, I haven't tested it and have asked several times for volunteers,
> > and found none.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> >
> >
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