Common buttons Run, Default, Exit, OK

 

 

These buttons appear at the bottom of the WinVNKey control panel and can be clicked at any time:

 

 

 

OK button

Click this button to close the control panel and put a yellow icon labeled with "VN" in red on the system tray at the lower right corner on the desktop.  WinVNKey is still running in the background.

 

Exit button

Click this button to quit or abort WinVNKey completely.  Note that clicking the X button at the top right corner of the WinVNKey control panel does not quit WinVNKey; it merely minimizes the dialog and puts it in the tray on the task bar.  

Default button

The WinVNKey control panel has three tabbed pages but only one of them is displayed at any given time.   Click this default button to reset all settings on the currently displayed page to the default state

 

 

Run button

This button is equivalent to the Start button in Windows.  Click this button to display a menu of options and actions as follows:

 

 

About

Displays information regarding TriChlor, Viet-Std, WinVNKey, Viscii, contact information, etc.

 

Browse

Displays a submenu that will launch the web browser and connect the user to the selected web site.  More Vietnamese computing web sites will be shown under "links".

Help

Displays this help document.

 

Preferences

Displays tabbed pages to change the user interface to English or Vietnamese and to configure dead keys on non U.S. keyboards.

 

Look up Hoi Nga

Displays a separate dialog for you to check hoi nga (hook-above or tilde) of a Vietnamese word.

 

Spell Check

Will be available in the future

 

Type HanNom

Displays a separate dialog that helps you type Vietnamese words and get Hán Nôm characters

 

 

Run Charmap

 

Conveniently launches Microsoft Character Map utility, which displays a table of Unicode characters.  Alternatively,  you can start it as follows:

 

 

Unicode Typepad

This is WinVNKey's version of Microsoft Character Map.  The advantage is that it is tightly integrated into WinVNKey to help users define macros in Unicode characters that are not available on keyboards.  In addition, it is available on Windows 9X whereas Microsoft Character Map is not.

 

Convert

Displays separate dialogs that help you convert Vietnamese text  from one Vietnamese character set to another.  It also features a transform tool to help programmers transform text to hexa/decimal/octal/UTF-8.

 

The converter is able to handle plain text (e.g., files with .txt extension) or RTF files (e.g., files that contain fonts and formatting information).   The plain text converter supports an autoguess charset feature, which automatically determines the character set of the source data.  It also supports conversion from plain text to RTF file using Unicode fonts either in precomposed or composed format.

 

The RTF converter in WinVNKey is very powerful and flexible.  The conversion relies on font names because WinVNKey can determine the character set from font names for most cases.   All you need to do is specify which fonts are replaced with which fonts.  At the present time WinVNKey is unable to convert Microsoft Word documents or HTML files.  However, MS Word can save .DOC files to RTF format and can read RTF files into .DOC format.  You can take advantage of this feature to convert Vietnamese .DOC or HTML documents by first converting to RTF using MS Word, then converting RTF files using WinVNKey, and finally converting back to DOC/HTML using MS Word.

 

 

 

Reset:

Displays a separate dialog that helps you  reset various settings of WinVNKey.

 

 

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