gtk/README.win32
Tor Lillqvist 00c5e83871 Add new keysyms from X11R6.4 (including EuroSign).
1999-10-31  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@iki.fi>

* gdk/gdkkeysyms.h: Add new keysyms from X11R6.4 (including
EuroSign).

* gdk/gdktypes.h: Add note about wchar_t not necessarily being the
same type as GdkWChar, especially on Win32.

* gdk/win32/*.c: Change gdk_root_parent to be a pointer.

* gdk/win32/*.c: Assume all strings are UTF-8. Convert to Unicode
before passing to Windows GDI for drawing etc. Convert to the
system default codepage before passing to Windows as window
titles.

* gdk/win32/gdkprivate.h: Add more fields to GdkWindowPrivate to
support changing input locale on the fly.

* gdk/win32/gdkevent.c: Support input language (keyboard locale)
on-the-fly changes. Convert incoming characters from the current
codepage to Unicode (and then to a UTF-8 multi-byte string) based
on the current input language. Use keysym<->Unicode mapping tables
and functions borrowed from xterm sources.

Support IMEs (Input Method Editors) for CJK languages. On non-CJK
editions of Win9x, use the ActiveX-based Active IMM (Input Method
Manager) if available. IMEs and the Active IMM are available under
the disguise of Chinese, Korean and Japanese support for IE and
Outlook Express from "Windows Update" for Win98. On Win2k, the CJK
support is present in all editions (as long as you install it).

Call DispatchMessage from gdk_events_queue() (and thus
gdk_WindowProc()), instead of duplicating the code in
gdk_WindowProc().

Reworked the grab handling and propagation code, factored out
duplicated code snippets into separate functions. Other cleanups,
too.

* gdk/win32/surrogate-dimm.h: Provide just the bits we need from
the <dimm.h> header describing the Active IMM.

* gdk/win32/gdkfont.c: Pretend to support fontsets, but so far
just do the same as for "single" fonts.

* gdk/win32/gdk.c: Call CoInitialize() (COM initialisation) from
gdk_init_check, and CoUninitialize() from gdk_exit_func. Handle
the new keysyms from gdkkeysyms.h.

* gtk/gtkfontsel.c (Win32): Load the font for the preview as a
fontset, so that gtkentry uses wide characters.

* gtk/gtkrc.c (Win32): Get the locale with gwin_getlocale(). Call
GTk+'s system directory "gtk+", not "gtk".
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The Win32 port of GTk+ is a work in progress, and not as stable or
correct as the Unix/X11 version. For more information about the Win32
port, see http://www.gimp.org/tml/gimp/win32/ or
http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/ .
To build GTk+ on Win32, you need either the Microsoft compiler and
tools, or gcc-2.95 or later running under cygwin-b20.1 or
later. Compile in gdk\win32 and gtk with `nmake -f makefile.msc` or
`make -f makefile.cygwin`. Before doing a install, check the BIN
definition in gdk\win32\makefile.msc (or makefile.cygwin) and
gtk\makefile.msc (or makefile.cygwin).
See the README.win32 file in the GLib distribution for instructions
how to build with gcc.
The tablet support uses the Wintab API. The Wintab development kit can
be downloaded from http://www.pointing.com. If you don't care for
that, undefine HAVE_WINTAB in config.h.win32 and remove references to
the wntab32x library from the makefile before building.
GTk+ wants to be built with the GNU "intl" library for
internationalisation (i18n). Get the version ported to Win32 (not a
very big deal) from tml's web site mentioned above. We build the
"intl" library as a DLL called gnu-intl.dll (the "gnu" prefix is used
to reduce name clash risks). If you don't want any i18n stuff,
undefine ENABLE_NLS, HAVE_GETTEXT and HAVE_LIBINTL in the
config.h.win32 file, and remove references to the gnu-intl library
from the makefiles.
Note that while the GNU gettext package is under the GPL, the "intl"
part of it as distributed with GNU libc is under the LGPL (like GTk+
or GLib). We want the LGPL one, even if they are the same, more or
less.