[lkb] SCIM and [incr TSDB()]

[Stefan Müller]

Hi,

I found out that SCIM (an input tool for Chinese) is incompatible with
the [incr TSDB()] podium. If SCIM is running, I cannot create test
suites since the keyboard events do not get through to \itsdb. The
problem is that SCIM is running for all users who use KDE under SuSE
10.0. So this means that \itsdb does not work for all SuSE users. The
first thing that I did after installing SuSE 10.0 was getting rid of
SCIM (since it also reacted to Control+Space, which I use in emacs). Now
I want to use SCIM, since it is a good way to get Chinese characters
into applications, but this means that I cannot use the fine system.

Does anybody know a way around this problem? I found something in the
net about a TCL/TK problem with SCIM and updated the packages, but if I
rember correctly, Oe is using his own `wish', which may explain why my
update of the respective packages did not have an effect.

Thanks and best wishes

Stefan

[Stephan Oepen]

hi stefan,

i believe you should probably send [incr tsdb()] queries to the mailing
list `***@delph-in.net' rather than then LKB list.

but, yes, your analysis is correct: [incr tsdb()] comes with its own
pre-compiled Tcl/Tk binary, hence i would have to rebuild that for it
to reflect patches to the core Tcl/Tk libraries. can you point me to
the relevant web site discussing interactions with SCIM?

all best - oe

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[Yi Zhang]

Hi oe and stefan,

I just noticed this conversation that I skipped a moment ago, and want to
confirm that the similar problem happened to me (quite a while ago) too.
This seems to be an issue related to the older tcl/tk:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=10894&release_id=375153

However, the latest releases of itsdb work just fine with my scim (v1.4.4)
that comes with Fedora Core 5. There are also some workarounds to disable
SCIM for a specific application:
http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/faq

I am not sure if these will work coz I can no longer reproduce the bug.

Best,
Yi

Post by Stephan Oepen
hi stefan,
i believe you should probably send [incr tsdb()] queries to the mailing
but, yes, your analysis is correct: [incr tsdb()] comes with its own
pre-compiled Tcl/Tk binary, hence i would have to rebuild that for it
to reflect patches to the core Tcl/Tk libraries. can you point me to
the relevant web site discussing interactions with SCIM?
all best - oe
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++ Universitetet i Oslo (IFI); Boks 1080 Blindern; 0316 Oslo; ([phone]
+++ CSLI Stanford; Ventura Hall; Stanford, CA 94305; ([phone]
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[Stefan Müller]

Hi Yi,

Thanks! For some reason I kept an old version of the LKB (I knew the
things that worked with this particular version). So maybe fedora fixed
the TCL/TK things already.

I will try the new installation thanks!

Best wishes

Stefan