"OwnTextField" / IME (input method editor) for DfM - who can integrate this ?

[Gert]

Colleagues,

let's try to get progress on that IME for DfM again. Jeff summarized the need for such an IME, see http://dictionarymid.gottfried-signs.ch/index.php?topic=46.msg207#msg207 and http://dictionarymid.gottfried-signs.ch/index.php?topic=45.msg188#msg188.

Peter already implemented in a separate application what we need: see Peter's OwnTextField http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/OTF.html.

Peter's OwnTextField already supports what Jeff calls "Multi-Tap"-feature. And, to my assessment, this component can easily be adapted to support different languages by a mechanism analogously to the one used for Normation-class and DictionaryUpdate-class.

Now an important aspect: we need to have that OwnTextField also as replacement for the built-in TextField that is provided by many Nokia, Motorola and SonyEricsson devices. For these devices the built-in TextField shows an annoying popup-editor ! A solution with the 'inline editor' OwnTextField is more comfortable.

Well, who can take the task to finalize the work on Peter's OwnTextField and to integrate this into DictionaryForMIDs ??

I attached the source code to this posting (Peter, I hope that is ok for you).

Best greetings,
Gert

[adenin__]

hello,

I would be glad if somebody completed this task.
TextField with pop-up editor in SonyEricsson and others mentioned is really ugly - I don't know reason, why manufacturers decided
for such solution...

btw. I noticed that by newer models SE it is solved nice - text is edited right on form (SE k610i)


Peter

[zz85]

IMHO, maybe some people prefers the drop down list, like auto complete list fouud in IDEs.