Re: gtkmm support for keyboard input processing and input methods (or lack thereof)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 21:05 +0100, Chrysme wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> Is there any plan to wrap the parts of Gtk+ needed for proper keyboard
> input handling?
> 
> Looking through the documentation for gtkmm 2.4, it seems the only way
> to process individual key press/release events is to read the raw
> GdkEventKey, but gdk_unicode_to_keyval(), gdk_keyval_to_unicode() and
> related keymap functions are not present in gdkmm. As for text entry,
> the necessary Gtk+ classes GtkIMContext, GtkIMMulticontext, etc are
> not wrapped in gtkmm.

There are for implementing input methods. For instance, to support
Chinese via entering strokes. What do you actually need to do?

> I'm new to gtkmm, and it was pretty disappointing to see that I can't
> support more than the Queen's ASCII without having to fall back on
> Gtk+.

In general, there's full unicode support in gtkmm applications.

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