Introduction to Text Input Management
Explains how to use the input management technology that has been replaced by the Input Method Kit and NSTextInputClient.
Who Should Read This Document
Read this document if you want to create a custom input server for your Cocoa application or if you want to implement text input capabilities in a view.
Organization of This Document
The text input management system is described in the following articles:
- Text Input Management Architecture provides an overview of the text input management system.
- About Key Bindings explains how the text input management system binds keystrokes to character data.
Detailed information about creating and delivering a custom input server is covered in the following articles:
- Creating Input Servers explains how to implement an input server.
- Deploying Input Servers explains how to install an input server.
If you want to create a custom view to handle text input capabilities, read this article:
- Creating Custom Views explains how to add keyboard input capabilities to a custom view.
See Also
For more information, refer to the following documents:
- Text Editing Programming Guide describes the text-editing process, including text-input key event processing through the input management system.
- NSInputServer, NSInputManager, and NSTextView are the primary classes that interact to provide text input management for Cocoa applications.
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