TSF Aware

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...

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...

You might have noticed that I haven't really talked about text stores on this blog. That's because I've been working on an article for MSDN Magazine on just that very subject. It's in the July 2007 issue, and I just got my copy in the mail, so if you're Read More...

Kirby left a comment to my post on candidates asking when a text service should create an ITfCandidateList. The answer is that when the text service wants to show candidates (via a preserved key or other mechanism), it should show its modal UI, and quite Read More...

The first stop on the TSF tour is the application interfaces. These are implemented by applications or text controls. An application (or text control) must implement ITextStoreACP to be considered ‘TSF-aware'. It may choose to implement any of the other Read More...