For additional information about specific issues related to bidirectional functions and support, see Bidirectional considerations.
To work with Arabic and Hebrew maps, you must enable bidirectional support in the BMS Map Editor Preferences dialog. This step adds a bidirectional mode button to the Design page and options to the Design pop-up menu. Status bar information is given when directly editing a field.
Enable the bidirectional settings that you want before you close the Preferences window.
Sets visual ordering of text, instead of the default logical ordering.
Places a Bidirectional settings button on the Design page options bar
Sets a right-to-left text flow in the display.
Resets swappable characters. For example, in a right-to-left string, the parentheses characters ( and ) will be reversed.
Sets an inversion of the screen, which causes Hindi numerals to be replaced by their Arabic counterparts and the Arabic numerals to be replaced by their Hindi counterparts.
When selected in the Preferences window, the map options are in effect for each newly loaded map set.
| Key function | Description | Key combination |
|---|---|---|
| Push | Starts a segment of reversed text and reverts the direction of the cursor. Text is pushed toward the end of the field, and the cursor remains stationary. | Shift+NumLock |
| EndPush | Terminates the current segment of reversed text. The cursor skips to the end of the segment, and its direction is restored. | Shift+/ |
| AutoPush | Enables the Push and EndPush functions to be automatically invoked, based on the actual text entered. | Alt+/ |
| FieldReverse | Reverses the typing direction and the direction of functions such as Backspace, Delete, Home, and End. However, the function does not visually invert the contents of the field. | Alt+NumLock |
| Switch between input of Arabic/Hindi Numerals | Switches numerals input between Arabic and Hindi. | Alt+* |
Status displays either LTR (left-to-right) or RTL.
Status displays A when Autopush is enabled (visual mode only).
No bidirectional mode options are enabled.
Push mode is enabled.
Field Reverse is enabled.
Input is Hindi numerals (Arabic only).
Creates a visual JSF page with text fields that support visual input.
Select this option when generating JSF pages to be used in Arabic applications.
Enables copy/paste to and from the input fields in the JSF page.
Enables hints to be displayed beside the input fields in the JSF page.
Enables display of input field status in the browser status bar.
See JSF Web page generation for additional details about creating JSF pages.