Dianne, thank you for the clarification.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > > Can you explain to me how I can 'listen' to these calls? This is exactly what I have been trying to achieve. Best, Rich > 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
