On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 1:13 PM Craig Latta <craig at blackpagedigital.com>
wrote:

>
>       I wrote:
>
>  > ...on the iPad, there's Scribble. I wrote SqueakJS support for it. I
>  > hide an invisible HTML text input element underneath wherever you're
>  > entering text, and Scribble recognizes it. It does both ink-based
>  > recognition and the sliding-around-on-an-onscreen-keyboard thing,
>  > which I really like.
>  >
>  >     https://vimeo.com/494744698 <https://vimeo.com/494744698>
>
>       Vanessa responds:
>
>  > Oh cool! Does it need image-side support? If not I'd love to get this
>  > into SqueakJS proper - I think having a hidden text field might solve
>  > the various issues we have on e.g. Android, or with copy/paste on
>  > Safari.
>
>       Yeah! This use case involves a tiny bit of image-side support, so
> that the hidden recognizer is moved properly whenever a Smalltalk window
> is activated. I'll submit a pull request for the rest of it.
>

Does it use the setCompositionWindow mechanism? I always thought we should
change ImmAbstractPlatform to call a
generic primSetCompositionWindowPosition in ImmPlugin, which doesn't exist
right now, but would allow platforms to hook into that mechanism without
image changes.

Then again, a focus / blur primitive would be good too so we can show/hide
the soft keyboard automatically. It should get the bounds of the text area,
and possibly the cursor position, too. With that information the VM could
automatically zoom to a text field on phones ... So maybe a new
SoftKeyboardPlugin?

Vanessa
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