problems with Cyrillic input on Windows standalone

[Devin Asay]

I forgot to mention that in some cases the selectionChanged message  
didn't get sent, especially in cases where the field was empty before  
I clicked into it. I added this to force the message to be sent under  
all conditions:

on keyDown which
   send "selectionChanged" to me
   pass keyDown
end keyDown

Just looking at it now, there is probably a more efficient way to do  
it, but I was just doing a proof of concept stack at the time so never  
went back to optimize it.

Devin

On Jan 26, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Devin Asay wrote:

> Hi Curt,
>
> I've been mostly offline this weekend, so didn't see this until now.
>
> The problem is that to type non-Western European text in a Rev field,
> you are dependent upon the proper input method for the OS being
> chosen, a process that is not entirely under Rev's control. I
> struggled with this very issue a few years back, and finally came up
> with this solution, which seems to be fairly reliable.
>
> In the field I want to type into, I had a preliminary, informational
> text message, something like "Click here to type Russian." In the
> field's script I put the following handlers (edited to eliminate the
> irrelevant bits):
>
> on selectionChanged
>     doStartTypingStuff
> end selectionChanged
>
> on doStartTypingStuff
>   select the text of me
>   # the following font custom props are nothing special,
>   # Verdana for Mac and Arial for Windows
>   if the platform is "MacOS" then
>     put the macFont of this stack into tFont
>   else
>     put the winFont of this stack into tFont
>   end if
>
>   set the textFont of the selectedChunk to (tFont&",russian")
>   put empty into me
> end doStartTypingStuff
>
> I just tested this on my OS X and Win XP boxes and it still seems to
> work. Of course, as I said, it's dependent upon your system having
> both the fonts and keyboard layouts installed for the language in
> question. Then of course the user has to know the proper key
> assignments to type successfully, but that's another story.
>
> HTH
>
> Devin
>
> On Jan 24, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Curt Ford wrote:
>
>> I'm using Rev 3.0 on a Mac for a project includes a field that users
>> should be able to type into in Russian. Until recently this worked
>> fine in Windows standalones but in recent builds, typing with the
>> Russian keyboard selected gives gibberish (numbers & symbols  
>> like :>B;
>> 5BO) instead of Russian in the Windows standalone only. The textFont
>> of the field is "Arial."
>>
>> To isolate the problem I made a separate stack with just a card & a
>> field with textFont set to Arial, textSize 18. This worked fine for
>> Russian in a Windows standalone.
>>
>> I tried copying this working field into my project without changing
>> anything about the field; its textFont was still Arial. When I tried
>> this is a Windows standalone, typing in Russian gave gibberish again.
>>
>> I can't find anything in the card script that affects the fields of
>> this card. In the stack script I do have
>>
>> if the platform = "Win32" then
>>    set the textfont of this stack to "Arial"
>>    set the textsize of this stack to 14
>>    --but don't make the pulldowns too big on Windows!
>>    set the textsize of group "Menubar" to 12
>>  else if the platform = "MacOS" then
>>    set the textfont of this stack to "Lucida Grande"
>>    set the textSize of this stack to 12
>>  end if
>>
>> But pasting this into the stack script of the separate stack didn't
>> cause a problem in the Windows standalone.
>>
>> Any ideas what's going on here, or what to look at?
>>
>> -Curt
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
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Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University