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The TSF Samples are Here!

The TSF samples (long missing from MSDN) have finally been uploaded to the MSDN Code Gallery .  The documentation is also available (in plain-text form) in each sample.  MSDN’s web page should be updated soon to point to the code gallery. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 12:03 PM by Eric Brown | 1 Comments
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Where are the TSF Samples?

Many people have emailed me asking about the TSF samples on MSDN.  They’re supposed to be on MSDN code gallery, although they don’t appear to be there. They are, however, part of the Windows SDK . After installation, you'll find them in %programfiles%\Microsoft Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:57 PM by Eric Brown | 1 Comments

More ways to fix problems with dictation

One common cause of dictation not working is that CTFMon is not running.  This is a helper process used by the Text Services Framework to implement things like global compartments and the like. If dictation is not working, try running this command Read More...
Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 12:21 PM by Eric Brown | 2 Comments
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Inline Dictation commands

I’ve heard from a number of sources that there isn’t any good documentation about the ‘inline’ dictation commands.  These commands can be uttered in the middle of a dictation stream (in other words, you don’t have to stop speaking to use these commands), Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:15 PM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Crypto History

David LeBlanc wrote an excellent overview of encrypted documents in Office.  A long, long time ago, I worked on the Word conversions team (it wasn’t even called Office then).  As part of my job, I wrote a document encryption filter.  More Read More...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 10:01 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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What Isn’t TSF good for?

Well, for one thing, it’s not that great for grabbing the current selection in the foreground application. There are several problems here: 1) You have to get your text service loaded into the target application. This can be slow. 2) Once your text service Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:03 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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When Dictation doesn't Work

WSR Dictation should always work in Wordpad.  If you're having problems with dictation, make sure it works in Wordpad.   If dictation doesn’t work in WordPad: 1)  Start regedit, go to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Speech\Preferences\en-us\ Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:17 PM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Categories

In an earlier post on keyboards , I talked briefly about text service categories.  I'd like to talk more about categories. TSF will make sure that at most one text service in any category is enabled at any given time. So, for example, you can enable Read More...
Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Visual Studio 2008 issues

If you're building a text service DLL, you almost certainly don't want to use Visual Studio 2008's compiler.  The problem is that Visual Studio 2008 uses a new C Runtime Library, and if you build your text service with Visual Studio, your text service Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:52 PM by Eric Brown | 5 Comments
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Things the Documentation left out, part N

I recently had two people ask me the same question: "Why can't I insert more than one character into a composition on Notepad?" It's actually a bit more complicated than that, since this behavior only appears to happen on Windows XP with a US English Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments

Oops!

If you've tried to use the modified version of Scintilla that I described in my MSDN article , you will find that the zipped sources don't actually have the changes that I made. That was my fault; when I was packaging the sources, I had two versions of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:01 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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ITfCompartmentEventSink::OnChange means what it says...

I got caught by this recently. ITfCompartmentEventSink::OnChange means what it says. If you repeatedly store the same value into a global compartment, the event sinks will not fire. If you store a different value into the compartment, the event sinks Read More...
Posted Monday, November 05, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Compartment Values

I've been working with compartments recently, and I've run across a few 'features' that tripped me up. I figure if I've run across them, others have too. Although MSDN says that you can put integers, BSTRs, and interface pointers into a compartment, you Read More...
Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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The usual path

Text Services Framework assumes that your text service follows a particular processing path. If your text service doesn't conform to these assumptions, then your programming job will be more complicated. (Not impossible, just more complex.) The text service Read More...
Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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What to do when you push a key

I received an interesting email the other day asking about how to get the character code from the parameters passed to the ITfKeyEventSink::OnKeyDown method. The answer is that most keyboard related text services only work with a particular keyboard layout, Read More...
Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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