[Vm-dev] Got soft keyboard working to some degree on Android
David T. Lewis
lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Feb 25 19:17:22 UTC 2011
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:46:55PM -0500, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I got the soft keyboard working with Squeak on a Pandigital Novel 9"
> tablet (Android 2.0).
Great, it's nice to see some progress on the Android VM!
Dave
> I had to add call to view.setFocusableInTouchMode(true) in the end of
> the onCreate method of SqueakActivity. Without that, the activity view
> could not get keyboard focus, even when touched. I haven't tested
> whether the focus is restored properly when activity changes its
> state, but such change may require more support anyway.
>
> See here *:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/squeakvm-tablet/source/browse/project/src/org/squeak/android/SqueakActivity.java
>
> I also changed the SqueakView class so that the physical "Menu" button
> toggles the soft keyboard. I wish it did not take so much screen space
> ;)
>
> http://code.google.com/p/squeakvm-tablet/source/browse/project/src/org/squeak/android/SqueakView.java
>
> One thing I cannot figure out: how to send an event for BackSpace key.
>
> The following works for alphanumerics (event is the second argument of
> View.onKeyDown method):
>
> int uchar = event.getUnicodeChar();
> vm.sendEvent( 2 /* EventTypeKeyboard */,
> 0 /* timeStamp */,
> uchar /* charCode */,
> 0 /* EventKeyChar */,
> 0 /* modifiers */,
> uchar /* utf32Code */,
> 0 /* reserved1 */,
> 0 /* windowIndex */);
> vm.interpret();
>
> Characters typed on the soft keyboard appear e. g. in a workspace
> where a cursor is blinking, window frame becomes red, etc. which means
> input works. But pressing DEL does not have any effect. Enter works
> (cursor moves to newline) What values should I put into the
> sqInputEvent structure for DEL?
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> ------------------------------
> * I forked the squeak-android-vm project into
> http://code.google.com/p/squeakvm-tablet This project space has not
> been set up properly yet in terms of documentation; I just wanted to
> share my findings with other possibly interested developers.
>
> --
> Dimitry Golubovsky
>
> Anywhere on the Web
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