HOWTO: Disable IME for a Particular Window

• Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface (API) included with: - Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0

SUMMARY

In the Far East versions of Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0, applications can call ImmAssociateContext() to disable IME for a certain window. Windows 95 and Windows 4.0 now have a new Far East Common API Specification that enables this to would work for the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean versions of Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0.

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Sample Code

To disable IME for a certain window, an application can call ImmAssociateContext() API as shown below:

      HIMC hIMC;

   hIMC = ImmAssociateContext(hWnd, NULL);   // It makes IME disable for
                                             // hWnd window.

   // Then you can do whatever you want without IME.

   ImmAssociateContext(hWnd, hIMC); // If you want to enable
                                    // IME again, then you can
                                    // use the previous stored IME
                                    // context(hIMC)
                                    // to restore IME.