using the sdk keycodes is the best way. just i'm pointing the mistake he was doing in his code.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM, wahib haq <[email protected]> wrote: > why do you have to use Keycodes like 29 ? cant you use the keycodes > provided by the sdk > > On 3/21/10, murali raju <[email protected]> wrote: > > what you did is correct, but the keycodes of android are different. for A > it > > is 29 not 97. > > see this, > > > > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html > > > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Mauricio <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I understand onKeyDown should give me the key that was pressed, but > >> how to do that? I mean, if I do something like > >> > >> > >> public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) > >> { > >> switch (keyCode) > >> { > >> case 97 : // Letter A > >> DoSomething(); > >> break; > >> default : > >> // Do nothing > >> break; > >> } > >> // Indicate you took care of this event > >> return true; > >> > >> } > >> > >> Would it detect when I press the letter A on the keyboard? > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups "Android Beginners" group. > >> > >> NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at > >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android > >> > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<android-beginners%[email protected]> > <android-beginners%[email protected]<android-beginners%[email protected]> > > > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en > >> > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+ > >> unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words > "REMOVE > >> ME" as the subject. > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > > > > NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-beginners%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-beginners+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email > with > > the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > > > > > -- > Wahib-ul-haq > > 3rd year Communications Engineering Student, > NUST, Pakistan. > Microsoft Student Partner > follow me on twitter @wahibhaq > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > > NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-beginners%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.

