Re: Receiving Unicode Input in NSView
Re: Receiving Unicode Input in NSView
- Subject: Re: Receiving Unicode Input in NSView
- From: Aki Inoue <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:22:12 -0700
Bill,
> we used to call interpretKeyEvents in the keyDown handler and the InsertText
> handler would get the unicode string, I guess this stopped working with a
> system update a while back.
We have always required the first responder to adopt either NSTextInput or NSTextInputClient for handling text input with complex user interaction required such as the deadkey sequence.
> 1) subclass nsview and make it conform to the NSTextInputClient protocol
>
> i have been picking away at this, i added the NSTextInputClient handlers but
> they aren't being called. a working example or a pointer would help if
> anyone has done this.
Yes, we do have a sample. Check out file://localhost/Developer/Examples/AppKit/TextInputView/
Aki
On 2011/07/29, at 7:31, Bill Appleton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have seen this issue come up a lot, but there isn't much information on
> how to receive unicode input in a NSView.
>
> (I know we are supposed to just type in a NSTextField but that is impossible
> in our situation where the app must run stand-alone and as a browser
> plugin).
>
> we used to call interpretKeyEvents in the keyDown handler and the InsertText
> handler would get the unicode string, I guess this stopped working with a
> system update a while back.
>
> Now i think there are 2 ways to do this:
>
> 1) subclass nsview and make it conform to the NSTextInputClient protocol
>
> i have been picking away at this, i added the NSTextInputClient handlers but
> they aren't being called. a working example or a pointer would help if
> anyone has done this.
>
> 2) use a fake NSTextField and try to use that for gathering the unicode as
> it arrives.
>
> I have seen someone recommend NSWindow fieldEditor:forObject: to do this.
> This sounds pretty bad and i have a lot of uncertainty as to how to make
> this work right.
>
> So do you guys have a recommendation here?
>
> thanks in advance
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