How to move the IME window?

[Lloyd Dupont]

I have developed a text editor supporting international languages.
One problem still bother me: The location of the IME window.

When I have an asian user entering asian characters, (s)he does so through
an IME window which is located in a seemingly unpredictable/uncontrollable
location.

Is there a way I could set the location, size, and font (or at least font
size) used by this IME window?
How could I know when it is used or not?

[<ct>]

AFAIK, there's no way to do it with native code as this is OS controlled.
However, you can use the SendMessage Win32 API call, with the WM_IME_CONTROL
message
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/ime_8awc.asp),
and the IMC_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/ime_8wjb.asp)
and the COMPOSITIONFORM structure,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/ime_8vle.asp
as parameters.

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Carsten Thomsen
Senior .NET Solutions Architect / Developer / Author
MCAD/MCSD/MCSE/MCTS
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[Lloyd Dupont]

Thanks Carsten, that's good stuff!

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