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Chapter 7 - Text Services Manager

Using the Text Services Manager (for Client Applications)

This section describes how your client application can use the Text Services Manager application interface to communicate with text service components, how it can use Apple event handlers to receive information from text service components, and how it can communicate directly with text service components--bypassing the Text Services Manager altogether--for special purposes.

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Subtopics

Testing for the Availability of the Text Services Manager

Calling the Text Services Manager

Handling Text Service Apple Events

Direct Access to Text Service Components