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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3<protocol name="text_input_unstable_v3">
4  <copyright>
5    Copyright © 2012, 2013 Intel Corporation
6    Copyright © 2015, 2016 Jan Arne Petersen
7    Copyright © 2017, 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
8    Copyright © 2018       Purism SPC
9
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30  </copyright>
31
32  <description summary="Protocol for composing text">
33    This protocol allows compositors to act as input methods and to send text
34    to applications. A text input object is used to manage state of what are
35    typically text entry fields in the application.
36
37    This document adheres to the RFC 2119 when using words like "must",
38    "should", "may", etc.
39
40    Warning! The protocol described in this file is experimental and
41    backward incompatible changes may be made. Backward compatible changes
42    may be added together with the corresponding interface version bump.
43    Backward incompatible changes are done by bumping the version number in
44    the protocol and interface names and resetting the interface version.
45    Once the protocol is to be declared stable, the 'z' prefix and the
46    version number in the protocol and interface names are removed and the
47    interface version number is reset.
48  </description>
49
50  <interface name="zwp_text_input_v3" version="1">
51    <description summary="text input">
52      The zwp_text_input_v3 interface represents text input and input methods
53      associated with a seat. It provides enter/leave events to follow the
54      text input focus for a seat.
55
56      Requests are used to enable/disable the text-input object and set
57      state information like surrounding and selected text or the content type.
58      The information about the entered text is sent to the text-input object
59      via the preedit_string and commit_string events.
60
61      Text is valid UTF-8 encoded, indices and lengths are in bytes. Indices
62      must not point to middle bytes inside a code point: they must either
63      point to the first byte of a code point or to the end of the buffer.
64      Lengths must be measured between two valid indices.
65
66      Focus moving throughout surfaces will result in the emission of
67      zwp_text_input_v3.enter and zwp_text_input_v3.leave events. The focused
68      surface must commit zwp_text_input_v3.enable and
69      zwp_text_input_v3.disable requests as the keyboard focus moves across
70      editable and non-editable elements of the UI. Those two requests are not
71      expected to be paired with each other, the compositor must be able to
72      handle consecutive series of the same request.
73
74      State is sent by the state requests (set_surrounding_text,
75      set_content_type and set_cursor_rectangle) and a commit request. After an
76      enter event or disable request all state information is invalidated and
77      needs to be resent by the client.
78    </description>
79
80    <request name="destroy" type="destructor">
81      <description summary="Destroy the wp_text_input">
82        Destroy the wp_text_input object. Also disables all surfaces enabled
83        through this wp_text_input object.
84      </description>
85    </request>
86
87    <request name="enable">
88      <description summary="Request text input to be enabled">
89        Requests text input on the surface previously obtained from the enter
90        event.
91
92        This request must be issued every time the active text input changes
93        to a new one, including within the current surface. Use
94        zwp_text_input_v3.disable when there is no longer any input focus on
95        the current surface.
96
97        This request resets all state associated with previous enable, disable,
98        set_surrounding_text, set_text_change_cause, set_content_type, and
99        set_cursor_rectangle requests, as well as the state associated with
100        preedit_string, commit_string, and delete_surrounding_text events.
101
102        The set_surrounding_text, set_content_type and set_cursor_rectangle
103        requests must follow if the text input supports the necessary
104        functionality.
105
106        State set with this request is double-buffered. It will get applied on
107        the next zwp_text_input_v3.commit request, and stay valid until the
108        next committed enable or disable request.
109
110        The changes must be applied by the compositor after issuing a
111        zwp_text_input_v3.commit request.
112      </description>
113    </request>
114
115    <request name="disable">
116      <description summary="Disable text input on a surface">
117        Explicitly disable text input on the current surface (typically when
118        there is no focus on any text entry inside the surface).
119
120        State set with this request is double-buffered. It will get applied on
121        the next zwp_text_input_v3.commit request.
122      </description>
123    </request>
124
125    <request name="set_surrounding_text">
126      <description summary="sets the surrounding text">
127        Sets the surrounding plain text around the input, excluding the preedit
128        text.
129
130        The client should notify the compositor of any changes in any of the
131        values carried with this request, including changes caused by handling
132        incoming text-input events as well as changes caused by other
133        mechanisms like keyboard typing.
134
135        If the client is unaware of the text around the cursor, it should not
136        issue this request, to signify lack of support to the compositor.
137
138        Text is UTF-8 encoded, and should include the cursor position, the
139        complete selection and additional characters before and after them.
140        There is a maximum length of wayland messages, so text can not be
141        longer than 4000 bytes.
142
143        Cursor is the byte offset of the cursor within text buffer.
144
145        Anchor is the byte offset of the selection anchor within text buffer.
146        If there is no selected text, anchor is the same as cursor.
147
148        If any preedit text is present, it is replaced with a cursor for the
149        purpose of this event.
150
151        Values set with this request are double-buffered. They will get applied
152        on the next zwp_text_input_v3.commit request, and stay valid until the
153        next committed enable or disable request.
154
155        The initial state for affected fields is empty, meaning that the text
156        input does not support sending surrounding text. If the empty values
157        get applied, subsequent attempts to change them may have no effect.
158      </description>
159      <arg name="text" type="string"/>
160      <arg name="cursor" type="int"/>
161      <arg name="anchor" type="int"/>
162    </request>
163
164    <enum name="change_cause">
165      <description summary="text change reason">
166        Reason for the change of surrounding text or cursor posision.
167      </description>
168      <entry name="input_method" value="0" summary="input method caused the change"/>
169      <entry name="other" value="1" summary="something else than the input method caused the change"/>
170    </enum>
171
172    <request name="set_text_change_cause">
173      <description summary="indicates the cause of surrounding text change">
174        Tells the compositor why the text surrounding the cursor changed.
175
176        Whenever the client detects an external change in text, cursor, or
177        anchor posision, it must issue this request to the compositor. This
178        request is intended to give the input method a chance to update the
179        preedit text in an appropriate way, e.g. by removing it when the user
180        starts typing with a keyboard.
181
182        cause describes the source of the change.
183
184        The value set with this request is double-buffered. It must be applied
185        and reset to initial at the next zwp_text_input_v3.commit request.
186
187        The initial value of cause is input_method.
188      </description>
189      <arg name="cause" type="uint" enum="change_cause"/>
190    </request>
191
192    <enum name="content_hint" bitfield="true">
193      <description summary="content hint">
194        Content hint is a bitmask to allow to modify the behavior of the text
195        input.
196      </description>
197      <entry name="none" value="0x0" summary="no special behavior"/>
198      <entry name="completion" value="0x1" summary="suggest word completions"/>
199      <entry name="spellcheck" value="0x2" summary="suggest word corrections"/>
200      <entry name="auto_capitalization" value="0x4" summary="switch to uppercase letters at the start of a sentence"/>
201      <entry name="lowercase" value="0x8" summary="prefer lowercase letters"/>
202      <entry name="uppercase" value="0x10" summary="prefer uppercase letters"/>
203      <entry name="titlecase" value="0x20" summary="prefer casing for titles and headings (can be language dependent)"/>
204      <entry name="hidden_text" value="0x40" summary="characters should be hidden"/>
205      <entry name="sensitive_data" value="0x80" summary="typed text should not be stored"/>
206      <entry name="latin" value="0x100" summary="just Latin characters should be entered"/>
207      <entry name="multiline" value="0x200" summary="the text input is multiline"/>
208    </enum>
209
210    <enum name="content_purpose">
211      <description summary="content purpose">
212        The content purpose allows to specify the primary purpose of a text
213        input.
214
215        This allows an input method to show special purpose input panels with
216        extra characters or to disallow some characters.
217      </description>
218      <entry name="normal" value="0" summary="default input, allowing all characters"/>
219      <entry name="alpha" value="1" summary="allow only alphabetic characters"/>
220      <entry name="digits" value="2" summary="allow only digits"/>
221      <entry name="number" value="3" summary="input a number (including decimal separator and sign)"/>
222      <entry name="phone" value="4" summary="input a phone number"/>
223      <entry name="url" value="5" summary="input an URL"/>
224      <entry name="email" value="6" summary="input an email address"/>
225      <entry name="name" value="7" summary="input a name of a person"/>
226      <entry name="password" value="8" summary="input a password (combine with sensitive_data hint)"/>
227      <entry name="pin" value="9" summary="input is a numeric password (combine with sensitive_data hint)"/>
228      <entry name="date" value="10" summary="input a date"/>
229      <entry name="time" value="11" summary="input a time"/>
230      <entry name="datetime" value="12" summary="input a date and time"/>
231      <entry name="terminal" value="13" summary="input for a terminal"/>
232    </enum>
233
234    <request name="set_content_type">
235      <description summary="set content purpose and hint">
236        Sets the content purpose and content hint. While the purpose is the
237        basic purpose of an input field, the hint flags allow to modify some of
238        the behavior.
239
240        Values set with this request are double-buffered. They will get applied
241        on the next zwp_text_input_v3.commit request.
242        Subsequent attempts to update them may have no effect. The values
243        remain valid until the next committed enable or disable request.
244
245        The initial value for hint is none, and the initial value for purpose
246        is normal.
247      </description>
248      <arg name="hint" type="uint" enum="content_hint"/>
249      <arg name="purpose" type="uint" enum="content_purpose"/>
250    </request>
251
252    <request name="set_cursor_rectangle">
253      <description summary="set cursor position">
254        Marks an area around the cursor as a x, y, width, height rectangle in
255        surface local coordinates.
256
257        Allows the compositor to put a window with word suggestions near the
258        cursor, without obstructing the text being input.
259
260        If the client is unaware of the position of edited text, it should not
261        issue this request, to signify lack of support to the compositor.
262
263        Values set with this request are double-buffered. They will get applied
264        on the next zwp_text_input_v3.commit request, and stay valid until the
265        next committed enable or disable request.
266
267        The initial values describing a cursor rectangle are empty. That means
268        the text input does not support describing the cursor area. If the
269        empty values get applied, subsequent attempts to change them may have
270        no effect.
271      </description>
272      <arg name="x" type="int"/>
273      <arg name="y" type="int"/>
274      <arg name="width" type="int"/>
275      <arg name="height" type="int"/>
276    </request>
277
278    <request name="commit">
279      <description summary="commit state">
280        Atomically applies state changes recently sent to the compositor.
281
282        The commit request establishes and updates the state of the client, and
283        must be issued after any changes to apply them.
284
285        Text input state (enabled status, content purpose, content hint,
286        surrounding text and change cause, cursor rectangle) is conceptually
287        double-buffered within the context of a text input, i.e. between a
288        committed enable request and the following committed enable or disable
289        request.
290
291        Protocol requests modify the pending state, as opposed to the current
292        state in use by the input method. A commit request atomically applies
293        all pending state, replacing the current state. After commit, the new
294        pending state is as documented for each related request.
295
296        Requests are applied in the order of arrival.
297
298        Neither current nor pending state are modified unless noted otherwise.
299
300        The compositor must count the number of commit requests coming from
301        each zwp_text_input_v3 object and use the count as the serial in done
302        events.
303      </description>
304    </request>
305
306    <event name="enter">
307      <description summary="enter event">
308        Notification that this seat's text-input focus is on a certain surface.
309
310        When the seat has the keyboard capability the text-input focus follows
311        the keyboard focus. This event sets the current surface for the
312        text-input object.
313      </description>
314      <arg name="surface" type="object" interface="wl_surface"/>
315    </event>
316
317    <event name="leave">
318      <description summary="leave event">
319        Notification that this seat's text-input focus is no longer on a
320        certain surface. The client should reset any preedit string previously
321        set.
322
323        The leave notification clears the current surface. It is sent before
324        the enter notification for the new focus.
325
326        When the seat has the keyboard capability the text-input focus follows
327        the keyboard focus.
328      </description>
329      <arg name="surface" type="object" interface="wl_surface"/>
330    </event>
331
332    <event name="preedit_string">
333      <description summary="pre-edit">
334        Notify when a new composing text (pre-edit) should be set at the
335        current cursor position. Any previously set composing text must be
336        removed. Any previously existing selected text must be removed.
337
338        The argument text contains the pre-edit string buffer.
339
340        The parameters cursor_begin and cursor_end are counted in bytes
341        relative to the beginning of the submitted text buffer. Cursor should
342        be hidden when both are equal to -1.
343
344        They could be represented by the client as a line if both values are
345        the same, or as a text highlight otherwise.
346
347        Values set with this event are double-buffered. They must be applied
348        and reset to initial on the next zwp_text_input_v3.done event.
349
350        The initial value of text is an empty string, and cursor_begin,
351        cursor_end and cursor_hidden are all 0.
352      </description>
353      <arg name="text" type="string" allow-null="true"/>
354      <arg name="cursor_begin" type="int"/>
355      <arg name="cursor_end" type="int"/>
356    </event>
357
358    <event name="commit_string">
359      <description summary="text commit">
360        Notify when text should be inserted into the editor widget. The text to
361        commit could be either just a single character after a key press or the
362        result of some composing (pre-edit).
363
364        Values set with this event are double-buffered. They must be applied
365        and reset to initial on the next zwp_text_input_v3.done event.
366
367        The initial value of text is an empty string.
368      </description>
369      <arg name="text" type="string" allow-null="true"/>
370    </event>
371
372    <event name="delete_surrounding_text">
373      <description summary="delete surrounding text">
374        Notify when the text around the current cursor position should be
375        deleted.
376
377        Before_length and after_length are the number of bytes before and after
378        the current cursor index (excluding the selection) to delete.
379
380        If a preedit text is present, in effect before_length is counted from
381        the beginning of it, and after_length from its end (see done event
382        sequence).
383
384        Values set with this event are double-buffered. They must be applied
385        and reset to initial on the next zwp_text_input_v3.done event.
386
387        The initial values of both before_length and after_length are 0.
388      </description>
389      <arg name="before_length" type="uint" summary="length of text before current cursor position"/>
390      <arg name="after_length" type="uint" summary="length of text after current cursor position"/>
391    </event>
392
393    <event name="done">
394      <description summary="apply changes">
395        Instruct the application to apply changes to state requested by the
396        preedit_string, commit_string and delete_surrounding_text events. The
397        state relating to these events is double-buffered, and each one
398        modifies the pending state. This event replaces the current state with
399        the pending state.
400
401        The application must proceed by evaluating the changes in the following
402        order:
403
404        1. Replace existing preedit string with the cursor.
405        2. Delete requested surrounding text.
406        3. Insert commit string with the cursor at its end.
407        4. Calculate surrounding text to send.
408        5. Insert new preedit text in cursor position.
409        6. Place cursor inside preedit text.
410
411        The serial number reflects the last state of the zwp_text_input_v3
412        object known to the compositor. The value of the serial argument must
413        be equal to the number of commit requests already issued on that object.
414        When the client receives a done event with a serial different than the
415        number of past commit requests, it must proceed as normal, except it
416        should not change the current state of the zwp_text_input_v3 object.
417      </description>
418      <arg name="serial" type="uint"/>
419    </event>
420  </interface>
421
422  <interface name="zwp_text_input_manager_v3" version="1">
423    <description summary="text input manager">
424      A factory for text-input objects. This object is a global singleton.
425    </description>
426
427    <request name="destroy" type="destructor">
428      <description summary="Destroy the wp_text_input_manager">
429        Destroy the wp_text_input_manager object.
430      </description>
431    </request>
432
433    <request name="get_text_input">
434      <description summary="create a new text input object">
435        Creates a new text-input object for a given seat.
436      </description>
437      <arg name="id" type="new_id" interface="zwp_text_input_v3"/>
438      <arg name="seat" type="object" interface="wl_seat"/>
439    </request>
440  </interface>
441</protocol>
442