MindFusion Virtual Keyboard for WPF Changelog

What's new in MindFusion Virtual Keyboard for WPF 5.0

• New in version 5:
• General IME mode:
• The component now supports general IME mode that maps raw input sequence to dictionary entries. The keyboard collects clicked characters in a staging area and shows the matching entries as suggestions. Users can either click a suggestion button to send its content as input, or click the space key to send the first suggestion.
• To enable IME mode, call the LoadImeTable method, specifying the language for which to load IME table and the dictionary file path. The table file format contains one line per entry, with three tab delimited values: raw input, translation, frequency. For example, a hypothetical IME table that translates chemical formulas to compound's common name could look like this:
• Chinese:
• The component can parse IME tables from the Linux Ibus project to implement various Chinese transliteration systems. For example you can load following tables for respectively mainland China's simplified Chinese, Taiwan's traditional Chinese and Hong-Kong's Cangjie input methods:
• Pinyin
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/inputmethods/PinyinIME/+/refs/heads/master/jni/data/rawdict_utf16_65105_freq.txt
• Zhuyin
• https://github.com/definite/ibus-table-chinese/blob/master/tables/zhuyin.txt
• Cangjie
• https://github.com/definite/ibus-table-chinese/blob/master/tables/cangjie/cangjie3.txt
• Japanese
• If current language is Japanese, the keyboard renders Hiragana characters. In addition, LoadImeTable can parse tables from Google's mozc project to convert Hiragana to Kanji. To enable this mode, specify path to a directory containing the 10 dictionary files from following link
• Korean:
• The keyboard renders Hangul letters when current language is Korean, and automatically enables IME mode that converts letter sequences to Hangul syllabic blocks according to Unicode rules
• Dictionary licensing:
• Note that the open source Chinese and Japanese dictionaries linked above have licensing terms of their own - some are in the public domain, some include attribution / no warranty clauses, some are LGPL. For licensing terms, check comments in respective dictionary files or license sections of their parent project. If there is enough interest, we will provide built-in dictionaries on MindFusion's standard licensing terms for next releases.