NJStar Communicator
HOWTO: increase typing speed in NJStar Chinese IME
If you are using "Pinyin" or "Zhuyin" input methods, please follow the following rules to achieve the maximum input effeciency using NJStar's Smart Pinyin IME.
HOWTO: display DBCS (GB/Big5/JIS) filename on Windows Vista's explorer
Windows Vista's explorer has a strange way to display filename, so there is no easy way to display DBCS (GB/Big5/JIS/KSC coded) filename. The follow steps can partially solve the problem.
Why NJStar Communicator icon disappears in the System Tray ?
Some users find NJStar Communicator icon disappears in the System Tray and double clicking on the desktop icon does not bring up NJStar. Actually NJStar is already running, it might be hidden in the system tray.
HOWTO: start the input-bar to type Chinese/Japanese/Korean
When you start NJStar Communicator, it will normaly start the Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) input bar which you used last time. But if you closed the CJK input bar before closing the Viewer control bar, the CJK input bar will not start next time. In this case, you'd have to start the input bar in either of the following two ways:
HOWTO: use NJStar Communicator with Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo-Mail
All those free email services are web based email services. As with all web pages, whether you can view/input Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) text correctly depends on the page encoding. If your windows is non-CJK version, the page encoding is not CJK by default. To view/input CJK correctly on those webmail, please right click your mouse on a blank spot on the page, then select 'encoding' from the pop-up menu, and then select one of the following encodings:
HOWTO: configure Windows XP to work with NJStar Communicator
Please open Windows XP "Control Panel" => "Regional and Language Options" => "Languages", then disable/uncheck "Install files for East Asian languages" option. (Then restart your computer...)
By the way, to input multi-byte CJK text into programs such as Eudora, TextPad or NotePad, you can disable/uncheck "Input Unicode on Windows NT" from the NJStar input bar "Options" settings.
HOWTO: switch NJ Communicator language viewer from a program
To switch NJ COMMUNICATOR language from a program, call
SendMessage(FindWindow("NJCOM32",NULL),WM_COMMAND,id);
SendMessage(FindWindow("NJCOM16",NULL),WM_COMMAND,id); where
id=501 - Chinese Auto Simplified
id=502 - Chinese Auto Traditional
etc..
valid id=501-518, corresponding to the menu list
What are the advantages of "NJStar Communicator" versus "Chinese Star MP"?
1. More Compatible: NJStar Communicator supports ALL Windows version, including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and so on. Though Chinese Star MP stands for Chinese Star Multi-Platform, it does not supports Windows NT, you will need to buy another Chinese Star version to work with Windows NT.
Where are the User Modified Input Dictionaries Saved ?
Version 2.0-2.52 - in the Program Folder
C:\Program Files\NJStar Communicator\
Because non-admin users are unable to write to C:\Program Files\ folder on NTFS, we have changed to "Application Data Folder" since version 2.70
On Windows XP/2000/9x
C:\Documents and Settings\[your-user-name]\Application Data\NJStar\NJStar Chinese IME\ C:\Documents and Settings\[your-user-name]\Application Data\NJStar\NJStar Japanese IME\ C:\Documents and Settings\[your-user-name]\Application Data\NJStar\NJStar Korean IME\
On Windows Vista
HOWTO: close NJ Communicator from another program
On Win 95/98.
SendMessage(FindWindow("NJCOM32",NULL),WM_CLOSE,0);
SendMessage(FindWindow("NJCOM16",NULL),WM_CLOSE,0); On Windows NT/2000.
SendMessage(FindWindow("NJCOM32",NULL),WM_CLOSE,0);
