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imron -

IMEs like Google and Sogou have massive dictionaries for helping them do sentence prediction. They
must also have a set of mappings for pinyin->characters, however they don't make these things
publicly available. From a programming perspective, Pinyinput is about as simple as it gets. It's
far simpler to just replace a vowel with vowel+tone than it is to have to worry about which
characters map to which pinyin etc. Pinyinput was never designed to be a fully-fledged Chinese
IME, just something that fills a small gap in the Chinese IME market.

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JeffLi -

Hi Imron,

I found this Pinyinput software on wikipedia and downloaded it. It works well so far. It is really
a great surprise that this wonderful software is developed by someone I know. Congratulations!

Jeff










imron -

Yes, it's a small world! I'm glad you find it useful. Be sure to recommend it to everyone at QFLPC










dermur -

Congratulations on coming up with this really useful input method!

I couldn't help smiling as I read this thread from the beginning - it looks like you're certainly
a victim of your own success having faced nearly four years of technical support!










imron -

Well, although I've been a forums member for nearly 4 years, it's only been about 1 1/2 years
since I released Pinyinput, so it's not so bad










banjo67xxx -

Hi Imron,

Thanks for a great tool. It installs fine on my company laptop, however I can't get simplified
Chinese on it. I've compared the company laptop with my personal laptop (which has simplified
Chinese) and can't see any extra .ime files. Its probably something to do with working for a
Japanese company.

As you've worked out how to install pinyintool, perhaps you might know what registry
settings/files I need for Simplified Chinese? Can you help?

PS: The "add support for Asian fonts" is greyed out, so I can't use the normal method of adding
Chinese.

Thanks,
Ken.










imron -

For typing simplified Chinese, I would recommend something like Google's pinyin IME. If you have
access rights to install pinyinput, then you should be able to install that without any problems.










banjo67xxx -

xièxiè
谢谢

Worked perfectly










fuzzylintman -

Oh thank the maker for you, imron!!! I've been dying today trying everything I can think of to get
pinyin tone marks into Excel... I had a nice method that was workable for MS Word (using Shortcut
keys, such as Ctrl--+a, Ctrl-'+a, Ctrl-\+a, Ctrl-'+a for ā á ǎ à) but I've been stumped in
Excel... it doesn't have shortcut keys and the macros don't seem to support Unicode! I was getting
ready to write my own plugin for Excel...

This program is wonderful! I'll be writing up a document to present to the Chinese School that I
attend - I wouldn't be surprised if you get several more downloads over the next few weeks.

I do have one question / request... I notice in Excel that if I just start typing, the IME seems
to have difficulty knowing where the input is occuring, so the IME text appears somewhere near the
upper left corner of the screen (about 2 inches from the top.) If I'm actually editing the cell
(say with F2) then it places the IME text exactly where it should be - just below where I am
typing. This is OK as I've set my font pretty big, but it would be nicer if it could better judge
where the input is when I'm not in 'edit' mode... I figured this might just be a problem with
Excel and IMEs in general, but the Google Pinyin IME doesn't seem to have the same problem, so I'm
sure it is possible to do. If you can fix this, it would just be the cherry on top - if you can't
then have no fear I still LOOOOVE the IME and I'm going to recommend it to everyone!

Also one other question... let's say I was interested in writing my own IMEs... can you point me
to any documentation on doing this (obviously, yes, I am a programmer.)

-mdb










imron -

Documentation is pretty sparse. If you are familliar with COM, you can use the Text Services
Framework. The framework I used for Pinyinput is the older IME/IMM stuff. I have a copy of this
documentation from an older version of the MSDN (from VC++ 6). It's located in the DDK section.
This doesn't seem to be available publicly anymore as microsoft is trying to promote the Text
Services Framework for all future IMEs. Have a good read through the TSF stuff though as it will
give you a good grounding in the basics and the terminology. I only went with the older framework
to keep things small and light (the TSF appears to be based on this framework anyway).












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