Thank you for the response.  One last clarification.  So even if I
were building towards my new hardware device target -- not emulator --
my only option is to make this code change to achieve no hard keyboard
correct?

- Mike

On Mar 18, 8:48 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is currently no emulator that doesn't have a hard keyboard, so there
> is no way to see the landscape keyboard in the emulator (without hacking the
> system as you found).
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Still looking for information on my original question.  I have found
> > the following in PhoneWindowManager.java:
>
> > // Debugging: set this to have the system act like there is no hard
> > keyboard.
> >    static final boolean KEYBOARD_ALWAYS_HIDDEN = false;
>
> > Seting this achieves the result I want, which is a device with no hard
> > keyboard.  Again, I question if this is the proper way to really
> > achieve this when setting up a device target with softkeyboard only.
> > Is there not a .conf, .ini, etc file that feeds into the build system
> > describing the high level hardware capabilities?
>
> > - Mike
>
> > On Mar 5, 10:31 pm, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I would like some information on a) if the Cupcake Soft Keyboard is
> > > supported in Landscape and if so b) the manner in which the build
> > > option (or other config method) should be set up to do an emulator
> > > build for a device that has no physical keyboard?  I am presuming the
> > > Cupcake emulator does not show the Soft keyboard in Landscape because
> > > it has been configured to do this.
>
> > > Regards,
> > > Mike
>
> --
> 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.  All such questions should be posted on public
> forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
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