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imime - An immodule for GTK+2 using Windows IME

1. What's this?

"imime" is a input method module for Gtk+-2.0 which enables inline multilingual input using Windows IME. Currently, it only works with Win32 backend of Gtk+-2 yet.

2. Platform

Main target platform of this module are native win32 and Cygwin.

3. Download

You can get it from sourceforge.jp.

4. Required packages

glib+-2.2.0 or later.
atk-1.2.0 or later.
fontconfig-2.1.90 or later.
pango-1.2.0 or later.
gtk+-2.2.0 or later.

We recomend to use Masahiro Sakai's binary packagesin Cygwin.

5. Compile and Install

5.1 Compile by Cygwin

Generarlly, you can compile it by following command on Cygwin:

 $ ./configure
 $ make

Please see the "INSTALL" file for details.

5.2 Compile by Visual C++

Please set GTKDIR in Makefile.msc as a suitable folder. Generarlly, you can compile it by following command prompt:

 >nmake /f Makefile.msc

5.3 Install

If you want to install it, you should place this module (.libs/im-ime.dll) to the suitable directory (probably, $(lib_dir)/gtk-2.0/2.x.0/immodules/), then should update $(sysconf_dir)/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules using gtk-query-immodules-2.0. Specifically, you should add the following entry:

"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/immodules/im-ime.dll" 
"win32ime" "Windows IME" "gtk+" "" "*"

6. Usage

We recommend to use "test-imime.sh" shell script to test it. It will be generated automatically by configure script.

You can run a Gtk+-2 based program by following command:

 $ sh test-imime.sh program_name

Then you can enable IME by general way.

7. Licence

GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2

Takuro Ashie

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