© 2003 by Dominique Unruh. GPL To activate or deactivate an input method, select it from the “Input
Method” menu. If the option “Single” in that menu is activated
(default), only one input method can be active at the same
time. Otherwise several input methods may be activated concurrently,
adding their features.
Input methods which have already been accessed can be
activated/deactived using the buttons in the lower part of the applet,
or using the function keys.
To deactivate all input methods at once, use the menu item “Input
method→None”.
An alternative way to activate an input method is to type
@XXX+, where XXX is a string depending
on the input method. Possible choices for XXX are listed when
pressing the button “List global sequences”.
To deactivate an input method type @XXX-. Several
input methods can be activated simultaneously.
For details on a specific input methods, activate it and then press
the button “Document current method”.
Moving the cursor or typing Control-G will make the temporary input
permanent, this helps you to disambiguate the
transliteration. (E.g. If ae yields ä, then you may
get ae by typing a<Ctrl-G>e)
Backspace work in a hopefully intuitive way, even while typing
temporary input.
While composing, the status line will show possible completions of
the current temporary input.
Sometimes instead of the right characters, little boxes will
appear. This is due to a less complete font. Try selecting another one
or use “Select best” in the “Font”-Menu.
By pressing the “Copy” button, the current selection or the whole text
is copied to the clipboard. If this does not work (e.g. in
Netscape/Windows), the text is inserted into a little text area left
to the “Copy” button. Press Ctrl-C to copy it from there then.
If the “Copy” button is not available at all, use the menu “Edit→
Copy”, this will copy the selected text into the left frame, from
where you may copy it manually.
This menu does not appear in the applet. Terminates the application. This copies the whole text or the current selection. Note, that if the
surrounding web page presents a copy button, the latter is probably
a better choice, since JavaScript's access to the clipboard is less restricted
than the applet's. This pastes the text from the clipboard. Since the applet cannot
access the system clipboard, there are two ways to get text into the
clipboard. You can use the menu item “Edit→
Copy” or you can insert the text to be pasted into the text area
left of the “Copy” button on the web page (make sure, that the focus
leaves that field before trying to paste).
This behaves as does the menu item “Edit
→Paste”, with the difference, that the text to be pasted is
interpreted as input, i.e. when pasting e.g. privet while the Cyrillic input method is
activated, you will get привет
inserted.
This empties the input field. This deactivates all input methods.
Here you can activate or deactivate an input method. The input
methods are grouped according to the first letter of their name. If
only a few input methods are accessible, they are put into the “Input
method” menu directly. In this menu a number of predefined web pages are accessible. See Invoking Web Pages. If there are many web pages,
they are grouped in sub menus according to their initial letter.
This tries to find and activate the optimal font for the current
input, i.e. the font displaying as many characters as possible. If there is a selection, an optimal font for the content of the
selection is selected. Warning: Characters outside the BMP are not handled correctly by
this function, even if they are displayed.
While this option is activated, always try to automatically select
a font which at least displays the current composition. This may slow down operation considerably, if there is no font
displaying all you type. Warning: Characters outside the BMP are not handled correctly by
this function, even if they are displayed.
The current selection is show in a new window using all accessible
fonts. The fonts are ordered by the number of characters displayed.
Increases resp. decreases the font size by two points. Sets the font size. Here you can select a font to display the content. The fonts are
grouped according to the first letter of their name. If only a few
fonts are accessible, they are put into the “Font” menu directly.
Activating an Input Method
Typing text
To type some text, just enter the transliteration. The characters,
which are currently considered for replacement (temporary input), are
rendered in blue colour.
Copying Text to the Clipboard
Due to security restrictions, it is unfortunately not possible to copy
from applets to the system clipboard. To be able to use the entered
text in other application, it is necessary to do so. Therefore the
following workaround has been devised:
Invoking Web Pages
A common application of this applet is to type some text in a foreign
language and then to copy it into the search field of some search
engine or online dictionary. To simplify this process, some predefined
web pages are accessible in the menu “Web page”. Invoking a web page
takes the current selection (or the whole text) and inserts it into
the suitable input field of the web page. For example type some text
and search it in the Internet by calling “Web page→Search: Google”.
Menu Reference
Menu “File”
Menu item “File→Exit”
Menu “Edit”
Menu item “Edit→Copy”
Menu item “Edit→Paste”
Menu item “Edit→Paste as input”
Menu item “Edit→Clear”
Menu “Input method”
Menu item “Input method→None”
Menu item “Input method→Single”
Sub menus “Input method→A…”, …,
“Input method→others”
Menu “Web page”
Menu item “Font→Select best”
Menu item “Font→Auto select”
Menu item “Font→Font Viewer”
Sub menu “Font→Size”
Sub menu items “Font→Size→Larger” and “Font→Size→Smaller”
Sub menu items “Font→Size→12” etc.
Sub menus “Font→A…”, …, “Font→others”
Menu “Help”
Menu item “Help→General”
Menu “File”
Menu item “File→Exit”
Menu “Edit”
Menu item “Edit→Copy”
Menu item “Edit→Paste”
Menu item “Edit→Paste as input”
Menu item “Edit→Clear”
Menu “Input method”
Menu item “Input method→None”
Menu item “Input method→Single”
If this check box menu item is activated, only one input method can be
activated at a time. Otherwise several input methods can be active
concurrently.
Sub menus “Input method→A…”, …,
“Input method→others”
Menu “Web page”
Menu “Font”
Menu item “Font→Select best”
Menu item “Font→Auto select”
Menu item “Font→Font Viewer”
Sub menu “Font→Size”
Sub menu items “Font→Size→Larger” and “Font→Size→Smaller”
Sub menu items “Font→Size→12” etc.
Sub menus “Font→A…”, …, “Font→others”
Menu “Help”
Menu item “Help→General”
Displays this documentation page.