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.

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