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Chapter 7 - Text Services Manager

About the Text Services Manager

The Text Services Manager links text service components to client applications that use text services. When a client application requests a service from the Text Services Manager, the Text Services Manager routes the request to a text service component associated with that application. The text service component processes the request and may send text or other information back to the Text Services Manager, which passes it on to the client application through an Apple event.

An application that explicitly uses the Text Services Manager is called a TSM-aware application. An application that does not make calls to the Text Services Manager is called non-TSM-aware. A non-TSM-aware application can still make indirect use of some services of the Text Services Manager; see "Floating Input Windows" on page 7-13.

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Subtopics

The Text Services Environment

The Text Services Manager and Input Methods