Chewing Editor

chewing-editor is a cross platform chewing user phrase editor. It provides a easy way to manage user phrase. With it, user can customize their user phrase to increase input performance.

Install

Arch Linux: install from AUR: Stable release, Development
Mageia: install via urpmi chewing-editor - available in cauldron, Mageia 6 and later.
Debian/Ubuntu Linux: install via apt-get install chewing-editor

Development

Tools Requirement

CMake >= 3.0.0
gcc >= 4.8 or Visual Studio Express 2012
libchewing >= 0.4.0
Qt = 5
Editor with EditorConfig support
lcov for coverage testing

Build

chewing-editor can be built by the following commands:

cmake .
make

If cmake cannot find Qt5, check the environment variable CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH which shall point to Qt5 installation path. For example: C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\msvc2012_64.

Test

A custom target make check is used to build and run unit test.

Coverage Report

chewing-editor integrates with gcov to provide code coverage report. The following commands will generate coverage report for unit test.

cmake . -DENABLE_GCOV=yes
make check
scripts/lcov.sh

The coverage report will be in coveragereport directory.

Translation

Update Translations

Please use the following steps to update translations:

cmake .
make lupdate
ts files will be updated by lupdate
Use linguist to edit ts files

Add A New Translation

Please use the following steps to add a new translation:

Add locale in CMakeFiles.txt
cmake .
make lupdate
ts files will be updated by lupdate
Use linguist to edit ts files

Known Issues

Bopomofo cannot Display Correctly

Qt5 before v5.3.0 has problem displaying bopomofo with HarfBuzz-NG. If you encounter this issue, please upgrade your Qt5 to v5.3.0, or run chewing-editor with QT_HARFBUZZ=old.

Bugs & Feature Request

Please report any bug & feature request to https://github.com/chewing/chewing-editor/issues

Author & Contributors

ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬)
鄭鴻旗
Mike Tzou
Yao-Po Wang
Peter Dave Hello
David Kuo
Bruce Liu

Licenses

This project is licensed under GPL-2.0 or any later version.
Google C++ Mocking Framework is licensed under New BSD License

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