Handling text input correctly when developing a Win32 application is not as simple as it could be. The different types of messages don’t seem to be all that well understood… You need to manage quite a number of different, potentially Read more…
What’s wrong with TranslateMessage? Two things: It probably shouldn’t be in the message loop. Different windows do different things with character and keystroke messages. Performance is not an issue here nowadays. Having TranslateMessage in the message loop has resulted in Read more…
While on the topic of AddLanguageProfile – Vista changes the behaviour of this function. In Windows XP, it would install the TIP across the user’s currently installed languages, and just to be helpful, add Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and Read more…
Some time ago, Michael Kaplan wrote about the Ctrl+Space hotkey and its broken configuration in Windows Vista. What is particularly evil about the Ctrl+Space combination is that takes control even when the language is not selected. So you can be Read more…
I have just updated the documentation around the Keyman Developer CRM – specifically, details on how to manage your customer licence records and create new customer licences for your custom Keyman-based products. See http://tavultesoft.com/keymandev/documentation/70/tutorial_crm.html for details!
Yesterday we released Keyman 7! The excitement may have been somewhat overshadowed by a rather larger product release on the same day in the US, and ironically, an update to MSKLC was released on the same day. I’m not writing Read more…
I was asked via email this morning about the changing locale.xml file format between build 223 and build 224 of Keyman Desktop. I had meant to write an update on this blog for my previous post about the file format Read more…
The Keyman Desktop 7.0 Beta 2 UI is now both customizable and localizable. Localization of the user interface is possible via editing a single XML file called locale.xml. The default locale.xml file is in the folder [Program Files]TavultesoftKeyman Desktop Professional Read more…
I know I said I was going to write about the product management website – that will be coming soon. While reviewing the current functionality of the product management website (and I was actually getting ready for the blog post) Read more…
I am going to take you through the steps to create a shareware product in Keyman Developer 7 Beta 1. Much of the user interface will change with Beta 2 and no doubt some of the steps will be restructured Read more…