Creation of transliterating input methods

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I talked before about how Tamil is an abugida. I thought I'd talk for a bit about input methods, since...

I must admit that an example would be nice

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re: Creation of transliterating input methods

NyaRuRu (MSMVP for Windows - DirectX) — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:08:39 GMT

Thanks.

Anyway, I cannot use generics, C# 2.0 iterators and anonymous delegates to make my text service if I want to use the managed text service in Visual Stuio .NET 2003 into which .NET 1.1 CLR has been loaded.

Fortunately, my text service was written in C# 1.0, so it will be work fine both Visual Stuio .NET 2003 and Visual Stuio 2005.

re: Creation of transliterating input methods

Michael S. Kaplan — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:31:32 GMT

Well, that issue is explained in the thread:

"If the third part application is a native COM client, the latest installed
version of the CLR and the framework will be loaded, this is by design.
This is done to guarantee that v2 add-in's as well as older version add-in's
can load and run in the same process."

But as long as your code will run in the latest version, it should be okay....

re: Creation of transliterating input methods

NyaRuRu (MSMVP for Windows - DirectX) — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:14:23 GMT

Thanks to Michael,
Yes, I agree with you that we can run a (pure .NET) DLL under the different version of CLR, but I think it is not so easy and safe enough.

I found a similar thread :
http://www.hightechtalks.com/dotnet-framework-interop/net-2-0-mscoree-dll-209205.html

re: Creation of transliterating input methods

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:52:52 GMT

It should not actually crash, though. You do have to make sure you can load in any version of the BCL and not use methods that are only in newer versions, but you should be able to load in any process here?

re: Creation of transliterating input methods

NyaRuRu (MSMVP for Windows - DirectX) — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:41:57 GMT

I developed a pure .NET Text Input Service for Japanese language 4 years ago. It's very exciting experience for me.

But there is a problem that managed Text Service DLLs should be introduced to the target process, which may host another version of CLR.
Because current CLR can not run as side-by-side in the same process, the process will be crash.

I wish we could develop useful Text Services by .NET language without such a limitation.