Oops, duplicate of http://groups.google.com/group/android-framework/browse_thread/thread/a656b7aa896caa7f My bad, I'll re-post there -- please ignore this.
Cheers, Spiros On Jun 4, 1:12 pm, Spiros <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing a Greek IME, which also needs to translate hardware > keypresses. I'm doing this by intercepting onKeyDown() in > InputMethodService. > > Is there some way to find out what the caps state is (as indicated by > the plain/triangle/caret cursor in the UI for lowercase/single-caps/ > all-caps, respectively), so I can accordingly output upper or lower > case characters? I checked the PinyinIME code in GIT and it tries to > track the hardware keyboard shift state by monitoring > KEYCODE_SHIFT_LEFT and KEYCODE_SHIFT_RIGHT keypresses -- and it can > get out of sync with the true state indicated by the cursor, which can > be confusing. > > So, the question is: > 1. Do I also have to track hardware shift key-down events and > duplicate the caps state logic, or is there a way to query the input > connection what that state is? > 2. If there is no way to query the caps state, then is there a way to > reset it to lowercase (since I need to know what the initial caps > state is when the IME starts). > > Thanks! > Spiros --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
