Center pressing on the trackball is remapped to DPAD center if nobody handled it themselves. This is why you can long press on the trackball all over the UI to bring up the context menu.
On Oct 27, 8:13 pm, "s d" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do we bring up context menu when there is no D-Pad Center? Holding down > the trackball didn't seem to work for me. > > Thanks! > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:04 PM, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > They are translated, but of course it will be a quick down/up pair. > > Snake should work; Lunar Lander not so well since it relies on you > > holding down the button which you can't do with a trackball. > > > On Oct 27, 12:58 pm, Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Mark, > > > > Thanks for your message. Are you saying that when you install > > > LunarLander on your G1 device, you can steer left and right using the > > > trackball? Because it sure doesn't work for me, or other G1 users in > > > my office. Please try it out and let me know. > > > > Thanks, > > > --Ed > > > > On Oct 27, 9:59 am, Mark Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Ed wrote: > > > > > I had the same problem with the Lunar Lander application. Someone on > > > > > this group told me that the D-Pad events are supposed to be handled > > by > > > > > the trackball, but this is definitely not happening. > > > > > Sure it is. If nothing handles onTrackballEvent(), it translates the > > > > events into KeyEvent instances and calls onKeyEvent(). It works just > > fine. > > > > > Well, other than the fact that I find the trackball to be less precise > > > > than a D-pad for things that actually try using these events. > > > > > -- > > > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > > > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 1.3 Published! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
