Re: ISO: bright ideas for developer trying to use alternate input methods on Solaris SPARC

lvirden_at_yahoo.com
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: 5 Feb 2004 11:34:12 GMT

According to Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@activestate.com>:
:lvirden@yahoo.com wrote:
:> One of the things that have kept some of my developers using Tk 4.2 (!!!)
:> until now is that the version of Tk 4.2 they are using had the Kanji
:> modifications in it. These allowed display of Kanji as well as interaction
:> with an input method program (I think it is kinput2).
:>
:> I'm not really familar with the whole setup, so I don't understand what
:> the developers need to do to ''upgrade'' so that they are using
:> Tk 8.4 - but they would really like to do it.
:>
:> But for whatever reason, I get messages all the time telling me that
:> they cannot get their Tk 8.4 applications to interact with the input manager.

:That said, I think you are doing this on Solaris, whereas I have
:only tested on Linux and Windows (don't know if I have a Solaris
:machine with the requisite Japanese bits ...). I know that for
:Linux it's still kinput2.

We do, in fact, use Solaris 8 on SPARCs.

:> What he has asked me is whether there is some way to write a Tk 4.2 binding
:> so that when the contents of a Tk entry widget changes, a binding would
:> fire so that he could tend issue a send to his Tk 8.4 application with the
:> Kanji data.
:
:This should not be necessary at all.

I agree - it should not. However, we've had no luck getting Tk 8
to interact with kinput2, so he's struggling to get _something_ to work. 

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