TEXT, NATIVE LANGUAGE SUPPORT, AND TIME MEDIA - Typing configuration elements

Typing configuration elements

Each typing configuration can consist of the following items:

A virtual keyboard (required)
Zero or more text modifiers, such as transliterators or spell checkers, chained together in a specific order
An input method (optional)

An instance of TEditableTypingConfiguration encapsulates the items that comprise a particular typing configuration:

In addition, each typing configuration is associated with a particular natural language--for example, English or French--identified by an instance of TLanguageStyle. Because each configuration maintains this information, you can request a TTypingConfigurationHandle instance to select an appropriate configuration for a particular language.

The CommonPoint application system currently provides the following typing configurations:

English with transliterators for accents and smart quotes

Greek

Symbols (this configuration lets you enter a symbol name to generate the corresponding Unicode symbol character)

Japanese (using the Writing Heads` input method)

Unicode (this configuration lets you enter hexadecimal values to generate Unicode characters)

NOTE

The standard menus for editable text components provide access to each of these configurations. In a future release, the system will provide a key command that end users can use globally to select a typing configuration.

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