IME - How to handle key press

Question

In my game code, I process key input by handling WM-KEYDOWN message. wParam gives me the keycode i need.

The problem is with IME, especially KoreanIME. I get WM-IME-COMPOSITION and then WM-KEYUP, but never the WM-KEYDOWN.

So, the bottom line is.. I need to get keycode when i receive WM-IME-COMPOSITION. Is there a way to do so?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd374133(VS.85).aspx the composite key is in the wParam, encoded as DBCS (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/cs.htm). I guess you have to extract the appropriate byte from the word and decide according to that.

Answer 2

I know this is a bit late, but for the benefit of others, one could use

BOOL ImmDisableIME(
  __in  DWORD idThread
);

Pass the ID of the UI thread, the one which handles key presses.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd318535(v=VS.85).aspx