Re: Enabling/Setting Keyboard Layouts

From: KM (konstmor_at_nospam.yahoo.com)
Date: 05/06/04 

Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 16:37:56 -0700

Hi Lukas,

Frankly, there is not much I can tell you about the CMI interfaces. They are undocumented and it will be hard for me to list the
functionality I reverse engineered from the XPe binaries. (I am not a good doc writer, I guess)

As you know, CMI stands for Component Management Interface. This is the layer that seamlessly provides access to the XPe database
from set of tools (TD, CD, CDM), as well as provide for switching databases on the fly, a database communications layer was called
for in the overall architecture.
Basically, CMI is a set of objects that you have registered when you installed the XPe tools.

For some examples on how use the CMI you may take a look at the CMI Explorer tool supplied along with XPe/SP1 (VALUEADD\MSFT\SUPPORT
directory). Also, on www.xpefiles.com you will find my XPeTools set of components (I've just put the latest there, so please read
Readme.txt from the component zip to understand what the components do). Using the component you may get a feeling what could be
done (or automated) with the CMI object model.
XPeTools will also help you in hacking the "Regional and Language Options" component. What I see from the component script, that all
the locale specific information gets initialized and set within the script. It may not be hard to change (or implement your own) the
component that will carry the same functionality but plus the other things you need to accomplish.

In case you need more info or help, you will need to contact me offline (konstmor @ _no_spam_hotmail.com). 

-- 
 Konstantin
> Thanks a lot!
>
> I will probably select the keyboard layouts manually, we actually have
> just about 4 languages. But maybe we will need an automated solution
> sometime in the future. I would appreciate if you can give me some
> more info on CMI, Konstantin.
>
> When I select several keyboard layouts, I would like to have just one
> of them active (installed) as my default keyboard layout and the other
> ones inactive in my system.
> I can't select the layout at "Regional and Language Options". It seems
> that I have to activate the default layout for the selected language
> in another component..
> Or am I wrong? Maybe that's also just possible with scripting?
>
>
> Regards
> Lukas
>
>
> "KM" <konstmor@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<#CeoungMEHA.2488@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> > I agree with Slobodan - there is only CMI undocumented way.
> >
> > It shouldn't be hard to enumerate all "language support" component in the configuration and set their cmiLangKbdXXXX extended
> > properties to True.
> > Although, it would make a sense to put some efforts to do that automatically if you have many, many language support components
in
> > your image.
> >
> > LD, let me know if you want to know more info on CMI or need some help with it (I may extend XPeTools macro component from
> > www.xpefiles.com to add this functionality if required).
> >
> > -- 
> >  KM,
> >     BSquare Corporation
> >
> > > Only programmatically trough script. (this is undocumented)
> > >
> > > Konstantin will probably tell you more about how to do this.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Slobodan
> > >
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> > > "LD" <exalibur_x@gmx.net> wrote in message
> > > news:ab206e4e.0405040157.1c570f89@posting.google.com...
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I already searched through the NG and posted a Message a month ago,
> > > > but nobody could help me.
> > > >
> > > > As it seems to be impossible to use the Language Support components as
> > > > prototype while redefining the cmiLangKbdxxxx values, I wonder if
> > > > there is an another possibility to set one or more keyboard layout(s)
> > > > for a specific language. I'd like to have an automated solution, I
> > > > don't want to select the layouts manually in TD.
> > > >
> > > > Somebody has the same problem?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > > > Lukas
> > >
> > >

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