I would really appreciate a reply from someone at Google if nobody can answer this. I really need to know this to move ahead with my project. Thanks.
On Nov 11, 2:12 pm, Android_n00b <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > I am writing a program which captures the keys pressed by user in > android and displays it in Ubuntu. According to what I read, Android's > input event device is structured around an interrupt or polling > routine that captures the device-specific scancode and converts it to > a standard form acceptable to Linux (as defined in input.h) before > passing it to the kernel with input_event(). There are the steps which > describe the translation from keyboard input to application action: > 1. Window manager reads key event from Linux keyboard driver. > 2. Window manager maps scancode to keycode. > 3. Window manager sends both the scancode and the keycode to the > application. > > Now in my application I have an EditText which returns the keycode of > any key which is pressed. So basically this is what I have: > public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent > event) { > // TODO Auto-generated method stub > String a ="";a+=keyCode; > txt.setText(a); > > return false; > } > > Now I get this keycode value but it does not correspond to the > scancode value. For example, the keycode value for 'A' is 29 but the > scancode is 30. There is no correlation I can see between the input.h > scancodes and these keycodes either. My question is, I want to know > how step 2 (the mapping) above takes place. My applications aim is to > echo whatever I type on my android keyboard on my Ubuntu desktop (I > can connect between the 2 without a problem, so you don't have to > worry about that). Any help would be appreciated, as I have looked > online for quite a bit. -- 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
