On 9/23/06, Rob Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yen-Ju Chen <yjchenx <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> Yes, it can, but it needs some polish.
> I uses it in Typewriter for testing purpose.
> You can move it to EtoileExtensionsKit and link Typewriter to it.
> The only issue I have is that when user choose a character from a font,
> the text view need to be set to the same font.
> Otherwise, the character may not be displayed correctly.
> In other word, character panel need to set the correct font to text view
> and update font panel at the same time.
> But i am not sure it is a desired behave since users may not be aware that
> the font is changed automatically when they use character panel.
> It is a minor issue, though.
>
Perhaps the code here http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/charmap/ would be be
useful for a character pallete to be included in EtoileExtensionsKit. Or, just
as a standalone app with which characters can be manipulated via the pasteboard.
I also sent an email to the author couple days ago and got no reply. :P
Charmap is nice to be a standalone app (GPL2),
but may not good as character input.
Because most fonts do not cover all the characters,
there are many empty space in Charmap.app,
while character panel in Typewriter only display the characters a
given font offers.
Charmap try to display all the characters in Unicode
with a choice of font (maybe multiple fonts in the future)
and character panel try to display what a given font can offer.
The approach is slightly different.
Yen-Ju
Rob
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