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This project has evolved, from a simple plugin which converts romanised Burmese to native text, to a solid multi-font system for typing Burmese at all levels of its computerized history: past (Win Innwa), present (Zawgyi-One), and future (Unicode 5.1). Community involvement has been overwhelmingly positive, leading to a re-thinking of the Wait Zar romanisation (now in progress), collaboration and support from several developers and forums, and a general positive attitude towards the technology.
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Sticky-box #25

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Wait Zar 1.5+, suggested by Victor:

- The text box can be followed the active application window's coordinate
on giving desktop screen?
- Now is like, sticked on, top-left corner once loaded WZ.
- Or if the text box is non-movable, I recommend to stick on top of taskbar
panel? Like Burglish Input

Seth: The input box can be dragged around (click on it anywhere and
drag.... it just won't show until you release)
But I like the idea of having a "stick" option... very useful when you move
a window around. This is a great idea; I'll add it when I have time.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by seth.h...@gmail.com on 2 Jul 2008 at 3:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Current behavior has changed slightly:
  1) WZ usually appears near the cursor.
  2) WZ appears near in the old default position if no cursor info. is available.
  3) Desktop boundaries are, of course, still observed.

The only thing left to do:
  * A "stick" option to stick the main/sub window to another window. I need to consider how to handle this with respect to alt-tabbing. Also, dragging the parent window will require AttachThreadInput of something similar.
  * Sub-task: WaitZar is a top-level window, so sticking to "the last used window" might be hard to detect. This task should still be relatively easy to add for 1.8.

Original comment by seth.h...@gmail.com on 18 Aug 2010 at 6:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Now that we can click on windows, I want to add:
  1) A config option for enabling the "stick" feature.
  2) A button which appears (sentence window? main window?) --when you click on it, it captures the mouse and lets you move around. When you click once more, it takes the window you clicked and locks to that.

Original comment by seth.h...@gmail.com on 22 Aug 2010 at 4:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The two items above are easy. Actually tracking the window is harder. I can see 
two approaches:

   A) Set WaitZar's main/sentence windows as child windows to whatever is shown. This will NOT destroy them, as they are not "owned" by the window. 
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632597%28v=VS.85%29.aspx#parent_owner_handle

  B) Use AttachThreadInput to capture the WM_MOUSEMOVE (or similar) message. Then, use if (hwnd==capturedHWND) { track(); } in the code. We'd have to take care to release the hwnd as required.

I'll try option A first. This will definitely be turned off by default. Still, 
should be fun to play around with.

Original comment by seth.h...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2010 at 11:14