Automatic pop up kbd

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at openmoko.org
Fri May 16 13:26:57 CEST 2008


On Fri, 16 May 2008 11:02:03 +0100 Andy Powell <openmoko at automated.it> babbled:

> On Friday 16 May 2008 10:46, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:33:13 +0100 Andy Powell <openmoko at automated.it> 
> babbled:
> > > On Friday 16 May 2008 08:53, Tick wrote:
> > > > Hi Zecke,
> > > >     We are going to make the kbd show and hide automatically.
> > > > Would you please send a x-event  with message
> > > >     "_MTP_IM_INVOKER_COMMAND"  with operations
> > > > typedef enum {
> > > >         MTPRemoteNone = 0,
> > > >         MTPRemoteShow,
> > > >         MTPRemoteHide,
> > > >         MTPRemoteToggle,
> > > > } MTPRemoteOperation;
> > > > When ever input is needed and dismissed.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > Tick
> > >
> > > Please can you make it possible to switch this off and / or force the
> > > keyboard to hide. There's nothing worse than having an external keyboard
> > > connected and being forced to waste screen real estate on something you
> > > don;t need.
> >
> > design decision was made to remove manual control even though it has been
> > there from the beginning. no can do.
> 
> is that code for 'someone just decided it shouldn't be there, we all said it 
> should but they just told us to get rid of it'?

no comment :)

i just removed the button in the theme ui actually.. so it was a
/*
...
*/
blob :)
edje_decc illume.edc - find the qwerty button - remove the comments rebuild,
plonk back into place. button is back. :)

> how difficult is it going to be to patch this feature back in, I presume I 
> could write a panel plugin to send the same x event as above to toggle it 
> off? Or are applications going to be really annoying and toggle it for every 
> field causing me to track down the person that made the decision in the first 
> place and tie them to railway lines.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Andy / ScaredyCat
> 


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