Re: [Vm-dev] Got soft keyboard working to some degree on Android

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/squea...

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/squea...

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.

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