org.gnome.gtk
Class InputMethod

Object
  org.freedesktop.bindings.Pointer
      org.freedesktop.bindings.Proxy
          org.gnome.glib.Object
              org.gnome.gtk.InputMethod

Direct Known Subclasses:

MulticontextInputMethod, SimpleInputMethod

public abstract class InputMethod
extends Object

Complex input handling.

In GTK, these are GtkIMContext objects. This class and its concrete subclasses are presented here according to the Java naming conventions.

Since:

4.0.14

Author:

Andrew Cowie

connect

public void connect(InputMethod.Commit handler)

Hookup a InputMethod.Commit handler.

Since:

4.0.14

filterKeypress

public boolean filterKeypress(EventKey event)

Find out whether the input method has handled a keystroke, or whether it needs to be further handled or propegated.

This is for use in Widget.KeyPressEvent and Widget.KeyReleaseEvent handlers when hooking up an input method to a Widget, where the code will look something like:

 drawing.connect(new Widget.KeyPressEvent() {
     public boolean onKeyPressEvent(Widget source, EventKey event) {
         if (input.filterKeypress(event)) {
             return true;
         }
 
         // or carry on with your logic,
         if (doSomething()) {
             return true;
         }
 
         // otherwise progegate the keystroke up to the default handler
         return false;
     }
 });
 

You need to do call this for both key presses and releases (at least, for the default input method to work right, anyway).

Since:

4.0.14

setUsePreedit

public void setUsePreedit(boolean setting)

How hould the InputMethod provide feedback to the user? The default is true, which is to ask the Widget to display in-line, communicating the preedit string via the signal handlers. Otherwise, the InputMethod can attempt to use some alternative (internal) means.

Since:

4.0.14

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