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<protocol name="text_input_unstable_v1">

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  <interface name="zwp_text_input_v1" version="1">
    <description summary="text input">
      An object used for text input. Adds support for text input and input
      methods to applications. A text_input object is created from a
      wl_text_input_manager and corresponds typically to a text entry in an
      application.

      Requests are used to activate/deactivate the text_input object and set
      state information like surrounding and selected text or the content type.
      The information about entered text is sent to the text_input object via
      the pre-edit and commit events. Using this interface removes the need
      for applications to directly process hardware key events and compose text
      out of them.

      Text is generally UTF-8 encoded, indices and lengths are in bytes.

      Serials are used to synchronize the state between the text input and
      an input method. New serials are sent by the text input in the
      commit_state request and are used by the input method to indicate
      the known text input state in events like preedit_string, commit_string,
      and keysym. The text input can then ignore events from the input method
      which are based on an outdated state (for example after a reset).

      Warning! The protocol described in this file is experimental and
      backward incompatible changes may be made. Backward compatible changes
      may be added together with the corresponding interface version bump.
      Backward incompatible changes are done by bumping the version number in
      the protocol and interface names and resetting the interface version.
      Once the protocol is to be declared stable, the 'z' prefix and the
      version number in the protocol and interface names are removed and the
      interface version number is reset.
    </description>

    <request name="activate">
      <description summary="request activation">
	Requests the text_input object to be activated (typically when the
	text entry gets focus).

	The seat argument is a wl_seat which maintains the focus for this
	activation. The surface argument is a wl_surface assigned to the
	text_input object and tracked for focus lost. The enter event
	is emitted on successful activation.
      </description>
      <arg name="seat" type="object" interface="wl_seat"/>
      <arg name="surface" type="object" interface="wl_surface"/>
    </request>

    <request name="deactivate">
      <description summary="request deactivation">
	Requests the text_input object to be deactivated (typically when the
	text entry lost focus). The seat argument is a wl_seat which was used
	for activation.
      </description>
      <arg name="seat" type="object" interface="wl_seat"/>
    </request>

    <request name="show_input_panel">
      <description summary="show input panels">
	Requests input panels (virtual keyboard) to show.
      </description>
    </request>

    <request name="hide_input_panel">
      <description summary="hide input panels">
	Requests input panels (virtual keyboard) to hide.
      </description>
    </request>

    <request name="reset">
      <description summary="reset">
	Should be called by an editor widget when the input state should be
	reset, for example after the text was changed outside of the normal
	input method flow.
      </description>
    </request>

    <request name="set_surrounding_text">
      <description summary="sets the surrounding text">
	Sets the plain surrounding text around the input position. Text is
	UTF-8 encoded. Cursor is the byte offset within the
	surrounding text. Anchor is the byte offset of the
	selection anchor within the surrounding text. If there is no selected
	text anchor, then it is the same as cursor.
      </description>
      <arg name="text" type="string"/>
      <arg name="cursor" type="uint"/>
      <arg name="anchor" type="uint"/>
    </request>

    <enum name="content_hint">
      <description summary="content hint">
	Content hint is a bitmask to allow to modify the behavior of the text
	input.
      </description>
      <entry name="none" value="0x0" summary="no special behaviour"/>
      <entry name="default" value="0x7" summary="auto completion, correction and capitalization"/>
      <entry name="password" value="0xc0" summary="hidden and sensitive text"/>
      <entry name="auto_completion" value="0x1" summary="suggest word completions"/>
      <entry name="auto_correction" value="0x2" summary="suggest word corrections"/>
      <entry name="auto_capitalization" value="0x4" summary="switch to uppercase letters at the start of a sentence"/>
      <entry name="lowercase" value="0x8" summary="prefer lowercase letters"/>
      <entry name="uppercase" value="0x10" summary="prefer uppercase letters"/>
      <entry name="titlecase" value="0x20" summary="prefer casing for titles and headings (can be language dependent)"/>
      <entry name="hidden_text" value="0x40" summary="characters should be hidden"/>
      <entry name="sensitive_data" value="0x80" summary="typed text should not be stored"/>
      <entry name="latin" value="0x100" summary="just latin characters should be entered"/>
      <entry name="multiline" value="0x200" summary="the text input is multiline"/>
    </enum>

    <enum name="content_purpose">
      <description summary="content purpose">
	The content purpose allows to specify the primary purpose of a text
	input.

	This allows an input method to show special purpose input panels with
	extra characters or to disallow some characters.
      </description>
      <entry name="normal" value="0" summary="default input, allowing all characters"/>
      <entry name="alpha" value="1" summary="allow only alphabetic characters"/>
      <entry name="digits" value="2" summary="allow only digits"/>
      <entry name="number" value="3" summary="input a number (including decimal separator and sign)"/>
      <entry name="phone" value="4" summary="input a phone number"/>
      <entry name="url" value="5" summary="input an URL"/>
      <entry name="email" value="6" summary="input an email address"/>
      <entry name="name" value="7" summary="input a name of a person"/>
      <entry name="password" value="8" summary="input a password (combine with password or sensitive_data hint)"/>
      <entry name="date" value="9" summary="input a date"/>
      <entry name="time" value="10" summary="input a time"/>
      <entry name="datetime" value="11" summary="input a date and time"/>
      <entry name="terminal" value="12" summary="input for a terminal"/>
    </enum>

    <request name="set_content_type">
      <description summary="set content purpose and hint">
	Sets the content purpose and content hint. While the purpose is the
	basic purpose of an input field, the hint flags allow to modify some
	of the behavior.

	When no content type is explicitly set, a normal content purpose with
	default hints (auto completion, auto correction, auto capitalization)
	should be assumed.
      </description>
      <arg name="hint" type="uint"/>
      <arg name="purpose" type="uint"/>
    </request>

    <request name="set_cursor_rectangle">
      <arg name="x" type="int"/>
      <arg name="y" type="int"/>
      <arg name="width" type="int"/>
      <arg name="height" type="int"/>
    </request>

    <request name="set_preferred_language">
      <description summary="sets preferred language">
	Sets a specific language. This allows for example a virtual keyboard to
	show a language specific layout. The "language" argument is an RFC-3066
	format language tag.

	It could be used for example in a word processor to indicate the
	language of the currently edited document or in an instant message
	application which tracks languages of contacts.
      </description>
      <arg name="language" type="string"/>
    </request>

    <request name="commit_state">
      <arg name="serial" type="uint" summary="used to identify the known state"/>
    </request>

    <request name="invoke_action">
      <arg name="button" type="uint"/>
      <arg name="index" type="uint"/>
    </request>

    <event name="enter">
      <description summary="enter event">
	Notify the text_input object when it received focus. Typically in
	response to an activate request.
      </description>
      <arg name="surface" type="object" interface="wl_surface"/>
    </event>

    <event name="leave">
      <description summary="leave event">
	Notify the text_input object when it lost focus. Either in response
	to a deactivate request or when the assigned surface lost focus or was
	destroyed.
      </description>
    </event>

    <event name="modifiers_map">
      <description summary="modifiers map">
	Transfer an array of 0-terminated modifier names. The position in
	the array is the index of the modifier as used in the modifiers
	bitmask in the keysym event.
      </description>
      <arg name="map" type="array"/>
    </event>

    <event name="input_panel_state">
      <description summary="state of the input panel">
	Notify when the visibility state of the input panel changed.
      </description>
      <arg name="state" type="uint"/>
    </event>

    <event name="preedit_string">
      <description summary="pre-edit">
	Notify when a new composing text (pre-edit) should be set around the
	current cursor position. Any previously set composing text should
	be removed.

	The commit text can be used to replace the preedit text on reset
	(for example on unfocus).

	The text input should also handle all preedit_style and preedit_cursor
	events occurring directly before preedit_string.
      </description>
      <arg name="serial" type="uint" summary="serial of the latest known text input state"/>
      <arg name="text" type="string"/>
      <arg name="commit" type="string"/>
    </event>

    <enum name="preedit_style">
      <entry name="default" value="0" summary="default style for composing text"/>
      <entry name="none" value="1" summary="style should be the same as in non-composing text"/>
      <entry name="active" value="2"/>
      <entry name="inactive" value="3"/>
      <entry name="highlight" value="4"/>
      <entry name="underline" value="5"/>
      <entry name="selection" value="6"/>
      <entry name="incorrect" value="7"/>
    </enum>

    <event name="preedit_styling">
      <description summary="pre-edit styling">
	Sets styling information on composing text. The style is applied for
	length bytes from index relative to the beginning of the composing
	text (as byte offset). Multiple styles can
	be applied to a composing text by sending multiple preedit_styling
	events.

	This event is handled as part of a following preedit_string event.
      </description>
      <arg name="index" type="uint"/>
      <arg name="length" type="uint"/>
      <arg name="style" type="uint"/>
    </event>

    <event name="preedit_cursor">
      <description summary="pre-edit cursor">
	Sets the cursor position inside the composing text (as byte
	offset) relative to the start of the composing text. When index is a
	negative number no cursor is shown.

	This event is handled as part of a following preedit_string event.
      </description>
      <arg name="index" type="int"/>
    </event>

    <event name="commit_string">
      <description summary="commit">
	Notify when text should be inserted into the editor widget. The text to
	commit could be either just a single character after a key press or the
	result of some composing (pre-edit). It could also be an empty text
	when some text should be removed (see delete_surrounding_text) or when
	the input cursor should be moved (see cursor_position).

	Any previously set composing text should be removed.
      </description>
      <arg name="serial" type="uint" summary="serial of the latest known text input state"/>
      <arg name="text" type="string"/>
    </event>

    <event name="cursor_position">
      <description summary="set cursor to new position">
	Notify when the cursor or anchor position should be modified.

	This event should be handled as part of a following commit_string
	event.
      </description>
      <arg name="index" type="int"/>
      <arg name="anchor" type="int"/>
    </event>

    <event name="delete_surrounding_text">
      <description summary="delete surrounding text">
	Notify when the text around the current cursor position should be
	deleted.

	Index is relative to the current cursor (in bytes).
	Length is the length of deleted text (in bytes).

	This event should be handled as part of a following commit_string
	event.
      </description>
      <arg name="index" type="int"/>
      <arg name="length" type="uint"/>
    </event>

    <event name="keysym">
      <description summary="keysym">
	Notify when a key event was sent. Key events should not be used
	for normal text input operations, which should be done with
	commit_string, delete_surrounding_text, etc. The key event follows
	the wl_keyboard key event convention. Sym is an XKB keysym, state a
	wl_keyboard key_state. Modifiers are a mask for effective modifiers
	(where the modifier indices are set by the modifiers_map event)
      </description>
      <arg name="serial" type="uint" summary="serial of the latest known text input state"/>
      <arg name="time" type="uint"/>
      <arg name="sym" type="uint"/>
      <arg name="state" type="uint"/>
      <arg name="modifiers" type="uint"/>
    </event>

    <event name="language">
      <description summary="language">
	Sets the language of the input text. The "language" argument is an
	RFC-3066 format language tag.
      </description>
      <arg name="serial" type="uint" summary="serial of the latest known text input state"/>
      <arg name="language" type="string"/>
    </event>

    <enum name="text_direction">
      <entry name="auto" value="0" summary="automatic text direction based on text and language"/>
      <entry name="ltr" value="1" summary="left-to-right"/>
      <entry name="rtl" value="2" summary="right-to-left"/>
    </enum>

    <event name="text_direction">
      <description summary="text direction">
	Sets the text direction of input text.

	It is mainly needed for showing an input cursor on the correct side of
	the editor when there is no input done yet and making sure neutral
	direction text is laid out properly.
      </description>
      <arg name="serial" type="uint" summary="serial of the latest known text input state"/>
      <arg name="direction" type="uint"/>
    </event>
  </interface>

  <interface name="zwp_text_input_manager_v1" version="1">
    <description summary="text input manager">
      A factory for text_input objects. This object is a global singleton.
    </description>

    <request name="create_text_input">
      <description summary="create text input">
	Creates a new text_input object.
      </description>
      <arg name="id" type="new_id" interface="zwp_text_input_v1"/>
    </request>
  </interface>

</protocol>