I would also not exclude that Microsoft has established a new API for this since XP? Vista? 7?.

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Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org>
Gesendet: Freitag, 11. September 2020 00:53:55
An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] ImmPlugin (was: Squeak on a cellphone responds to touchscreen input now (was Re: Squeak on a PostmarketOS cellphone))

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 2:30 PM Thiede, Christoph
<Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
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> > > there are still traces of a rather ancient #ImmPlugin that was meant to tell the OS where to put that virtual keyboard:
> > I dont know wether  anciet cuts it. It's regularly shipped with the Linux VM and IIRC necessary for Japanese input…
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> The ImmPlugin does not work on Windows 10. This would be helpful for different scenarios: Ultrabooks with a touch keyboard, but also pop-up dialogs for clipboard history or character table, which usually pop up at the caret, just not in Squeak.
> Oh yes, another cleanup project! :-) Does the current ImmPluginWin32 work for anyone?

If I remember correctly, The plugin for Windows was written first and
then X11 version. The internet probably has the source code of it
somewhere, I would guess...

>
> Best,
> Christoph
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> Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. September 2020 20:39 Uhr
> An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] Squeak on a cellphone responds to touchscreen input now (was Re: Squeak on a PostmarketOS cellphone)
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> > On 2020-09-09, at 10:10 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> >
> > > ... and IIRC necessary for Japanese input…
> >
> > Because you need a virtual keyboard for that case? Hmm....
>
> Kinda; I did some faffing with it for the Scratch/Pi stuff several years ago. I faintly recall there being some really irritating clash between the settings/installs required and... something or other. Sometihng to do with  the `-compositionInput` and clashing with unix key handling and 'anthy' and iBus?
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> I don't recall managing to fully solve it.
>
> tim
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