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IMEStatus Function

Named Arguments

No

Syntax

IMEStatus()

Return Value

A Long representing the status of the input method editor (IME), as represented by the following constants for the Japanese, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese locales:

Constant	Value	Description
vbIMENoOP	0	IME not implemented.
vbIMEOn	1	IME is on.
vbIMEOff	2	IME is off.
vbIMEDisable	3	IME is disabled (Japanese locale only).
vbIMEHiragana	4	IME is using Hiragana double-byte characters (Japanese locale only).
vbIMEKatakanaDbl	5	IME is using Katakana double-byte characters (Japanese locale only).
vbIMEKatakanaSng	6	IME is using Katakana single-byte characters (Japanese locale only).
vbIMEAlphaDbl	7	IME is using an alphanumeric double-byte character set (Japanese locale only).
vbIMEAlphaSng	8	IME is using an alphanumeric single-byte character set (Japanese locale only).

For a Korean locale, the status of the IME is given by the five low-order bytes of the return value:

Byte	Value	Description
0	0	IME not installed
	1	IME installed
1	0	IME disabled
	1	IME enabled
2	0	IME English mode
	1	Hangeul mode
3	0	Banja mode (single-byte)
	1	Junja mode (double-byte)
4	0	Normal mode
	1	Hanja conversion mode

The status of any particular pair of attributes can therefore be accessed with a code fragment like the following:

If 2 And IMEStatus() Then
   Debug.Print "IME is enabled"
Else
   Debug.Print "IME Is disabled"
End If

Description

Indicates the state or character set of the IME, which is used in the Far Eastern ...