windows-chewing-tsf

Implement chewing in Windows via Text Services Framework:

• chewing_tip contains an implementation of Windows text service for libchewing.
• tsfreg contains TSF registration helper used in the installer.
• preferences contains the user preference and phrase editor GUI.

All parts are licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later license.

Development

Tool Requirements

Build natively on Windows using MSVC

• Build Tools for Visual Studio 2022
• NodeJS Native
• Rust

Cross compile on Windows using MinGW-W64

• MSYS2
• NodeJS Native
• Rust

Cross compile on Fedora using MinGW-W64

• NodeJS Native
• Rust

How to Build

• Get source from github

  git clone --recursive https://github.com/chewing/windows-chewing-tsf.git
  cd windows-chewing-tsf
  

• Use this xtask command to build the installer

  cargo xtask build-installer --target msvc --release
  cargo xtask package-installer
  

TSF References

• Text Services Framework
• Guidelines and checklist for IME development (Windows Store apps)
• Input Method Editors (Windows Store apps)
• Third-party input method editors
• Strategies for App Communication between Windows 8 UI and Windows 8 Desktop
• TSF Aware, Dictation, Windows Speech Recognition, and Text Services Framework. (blog)
• Win32 and COM for Windows Store apps
• Input Method Editor (IME) sample supporting Windows 8

Windows ACL (Access Control List) references

• The Windows Access Control Model Part 1
• The Windows Access Control Model: Part 2
• Windows 8 App Container Security Notes - Part 1
• How AccessCheck Works
• GetAppContainerNamedObjectPath function (enable accessing object outside app containers using ACL)
• Creating a DACL

Code Signing Policy

This project is sponsored by SignPath. We use free code signing provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation.

People and roles:

• Committers and reviewers: Chewing core team, Windows Chewing maintainers
• Approvers: Chewing core team

Privacy Policy

This program will not transfer any information to other networked systems unless specifically requested by the user or the person installing or operating it.

Bug Report

Please report any issue to here.