[ANN] ExtTextInputMode external

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi,

Perhaps I should explain a little more, because some people seem to think this feature was already available in LiveCode.

Currently, livecode has functions to retrieve the the current language settings of the iPhone. With iphonePreferredLanguages, you can find out which language to use if your application is multilingual. iPhoneCurrentLocale can be used to retrieve the current interface language. A likely scenario is that the current user interface is German and the preferred languages are 1) German and 2) English. This means that a multilingual app may use English if only French and English are available.

Currently, LiveCode doesn't allow you to find out which input method is currently used. The user may choose a Chinese keyboard while the preferred languages are German and English and the interface language is German. To find out which keyboard is used, you can now call the extCurrentInputMode function. With this external you now have all the info you may need:

iphonePreferredLanguages: list of languages in user's order of preference

iphoneCurrentLocale: the currently set language for the user interface of the iOS device

extCurrentInputMode: the language of the currently selected keyboard

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com
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Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.7 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/za

On 17 feb 2012, at 05:50, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Because I'm doing a lot with RTL and East Asian languages lately and things may go wrong if the user of my software uses the wrong keyboard, I wanted to check the input language on iOS devices before the user starts typing. There was no way to do this in LiveCode AFAIK and thus I decided to make a little external.
> 
> The external is called ExtTextInputMode. The function extCurrentInputMode() returns the language code of the currently selected keyboard.
> 
> The external is available for download from the private section of the Economy-x-Talk website and is free for everyone who has made a donation during the past year. Go to http://qery.us/1t8 for more information.
> 
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> Best regards,
> 
> Mark Schonewille
> 
> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
> Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer
> KvK: 50277553
> 
> Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.7 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/za