Er... what is the point of showing an on-screen keyboard if there is no touchscreen or mouse?!?
Anyway, you can use InputMethodManager to explicitly show or hide it. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Harishkumar V <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I am in this case. > > where my situation is , > "If it has a keyboard but that keyboard is not currently accessible to the > user, it will not be shown automatically but the user can explictly show > it." > > i have no touchscreen or mouse connected. > > How to explictly show it to the user?Any pointers will be helpful. > > Thanks and Regards, > HarishKumar.V > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: > >> You just include some IME with your system, which has marked itself as a >> default IME (if you don't mark it that way you will need to manually select >> it in settings th first time you run). Note that the LatinIME is marked >> this way, so the easiest thing is to use that. >> >> Then it will show. The system will decide when to show it based on your >> hardware: >> >> - If there is no keyboard, you get the behavior of a phone device without >> a keyboard, where it is automatically shown to the user. >> - If it has a keyboard but that keyboard is not currently accessible to >> the user, it will not be shown automatically but the user can explictly show >> it. >> - If there is an accessible keyboard, it will not be shown at all. >> >> Note that this behavior is ulimately up to the IME, so I am describing the >> default behavior for an IME, which is what LatinIME uses. >> >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:47 AM, fredchen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> As title, is there anyone knows how to make the soft keyboard show up? >>> I am running Android-1.5 on x86 platform and any help is appreciated. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Fred >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
