Dianne,

Can u detail me how to use InputMethodManager, in which part of the code, i
should modify.

Thanks and Regards,
HarishKumar.V

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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