Hi,
I got the soft keyboard working with Squeak on a Pandigital Novel 9" tablet (Android 2.0).
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.
------------------------------ * 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.