On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Andy Muchmore <[email protected]> wrote: > I have the opposite problem - when a text box opens up in our Java Applet on > the server side it fails to bring up the text keyboard for either the iPhone > or the iPad - the cursor is in the text box but no virtual keyboard - works > perfectly for devices with keyboards >
The text input mode that Remco is referring to is the input method provided by the Guacamole web application itself: http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/doc/gug/using-guacamole.html#text-input That is the intended way for users of mobile devices (and users lacking physical keyboards in general) to enter text. The intent is that the user selects that input method, and their native on-screen keyboard opens up as a result, along with some handy buttons. Beyond that, it's not really possible for a remote desktop solution like Guacamole to know when your Java applet displays a text box (or that a text box is focused within the remote desktop and keyboard input is appropriate). As far as remote desktop is concerned, everything is purely graphical, and that text box is no more than an image of a text box. To the human sitting in the chair, it's not all that different, but from the perspective of the software, it would be like asking that the keyboard open whenever the image of a bird appears [1]. - Mike [1] http://xkcd.com/1425/
