[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Branches and conflicts and git, oh my!

[Frederic Muller]

David Bruce wrote:
> Hi Frederic,
>
> On 12/27/09, Frederic Muller <fred at beijinglug.org> wrote:
>   
>> David Bruce wrote:
>>     
>>> [...]
>>>  I'm inclined to push out a new release in the next couple of
>>> days while my family is away.
>>>
>>>       
>> Will this include Tuxtyping as well or just Tuxmath? I still didn't
>> submit our work on the Chinese translation which if you do a new release
>> I would like to do before.
>>     
>
> Just tuxmath. But I do have some news about tuxtype - I am pretty sure
> that our current way of handling input won't work with the multiple
> keys needed for Chinese, so I looked into how tuxpaint does it.
> Tuxpaint has a file im.c, for Input Methods, which appears to have the
> needed capabilities.  Tuxpaint has input methods for Traditional
> Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai.  I have started to work on
> adapting this code for Tuxtype.  The code has been added to svn, but
> it isn't yet used by the program at runtime.  When I get it set up so
> it should hopefully work, it will need to be tested by those who know
> the respective languages.  I will keep you posted.
>
> David
>
>   
Wow that's really cool! Thanks a lot.
Fred