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Text services: Vista Extensions (UI Elements)

The TSF tour ends here, with a brief discussion of UI Elements in Vista If your text service wishes to be available in full-screen applications like games, it must implement ITfUIElement , and call the ITfUIElementMgr whenever the text service wants to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Text Services: Vista Extensions

In Windows Vista, TSF added the ability to run in locations where it had previously been disabled. For example, TSF is now available on secure desktops, in full screen (DirectX) applications, and in MTA threads. However, text services have to be aware Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Text Services: Candidates

If your text service supports multiple interpretations of the same input, and you wish to allow users to correct the initial interpretation (for dictation, we call this 'correction'; IMEs tend to call it 'reconversion'), your text service will need to Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 6 Comments
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Text Services: Function Providers

TSF allows text services to offer optional extension points through the ITfFunctionProvider interface. Indirection through the function provider allows text services to minimize memory usage and startup time by instantiating services when requested, rather Read More...
Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Text Services: Language Bar

If your text service wishes to display some UI on the language bar, then your service will need to create objects that implement one (or more) of the following interfaces: Interface How Obtained ITfLangBarItem Pass this base interface to ITfLangBarItemMgr::AddItem Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 1 Comments
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Text Service: Display Attributes

If your text service wishes to display text in different colors (e.g., displaying the current composition in red), then your text service needs to implement these interfaces: Interface How Obtained ITfDisplayAttributeProvider Obtained by QI from ITfTextInputProcessor Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 1 Comments
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Text Service Properties

The next thing that I'd like to talk about are properties. While the TSF manager implements basic property handling (via ITfProperty), a text service has the ability to customize the way TSF handles properties. If your text service wishes to attach private Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Text Service Basics

We have finally finished looking at the interfaces that TSF implements for you. Now we start looking at the interfaces that text services must implement. The first step are the essential interfaces. Every text service must implement these two interfaces. Read More...
Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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