Correct the IME does not send you raw keyboard events. It may not even *have* raw keyboard events. Consider a handwriting IME, for example. That is why the interaction with it is through InputConnection. Every interaction you can have with the IME is basically through InputConnection.
Note that on a soft keyboard, it *will* make calls on to InputConnection for each key pressed, to tell you about the text that should now be shown. On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Rich E <[email protected]> wrote: > Harsh, this doesn't make any sense. You are suggesting that implementing > onKeyDown will cause onTouchEvent to receive touches from the keyboard? That > is not right. Also, the touches are not in my view, they are in the global > keyboard. > > From what I have found in other posts, onKeyDown/Up does not fire when > pressing individual keys on the soft keyboard, only for the hard. Why this > is so is unclear to me, but that is what I am experiencing. > > The only solution I have found so far is not a favorable one, subclass > EditText and call > addTextChangedListener<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#addTextChangedListener(android.text.TextWatcher)> > with > my own TextWatcher. > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:49 PM, harsh chandel > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ok you have to write the code for on key down >> and each time the key is pressed on soft keyboard you capture the event >> and do whatever you want to do with on press event >> @Override >> public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) { >> if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) { >> _active = false; >> } >> >> this was what i was talking about >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Rich E <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:14 PM, harsh chandel >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> try ontouch method >>>> get x and y coordinate of the area clicked >>>> and do as you want on the clicked event >>>> >>>> >>> harsh chandel, I am not sure that I understand you.. I am using >>> onTouchEvent() to trigger the keyboard (imm.showSoftInput() code in my last >>> post)... but I cannot get the pressed keys of the keyboard. As it is not my >>> keyboard (it is the system shared keyboard), I cannot re-implement any >>> onTouchEvent method that it may hold, unless I am missing something in your >>> suggestion. >>> >>> There must be some event that I need to listen to (onKeyUp for the soft >>> keyboard keys..), but I don't yet know how. >>> >>> Thanks for the help, >>> Rich >>> >> >> > -- > 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 > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
