thanks - I get it On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Mike Jumper <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/ > -- Andy Muchmore MD [email protected] 301 461-2683
