Hello, Firstly, i realise that i may be breaching group etiquette here by re-posting a question in this group that i've also raised in another group, (android-ndk), However the question does straddle both areas, (ndk and sdk), and i suspect there will be many on here who probably know the answer to this post and can offer advice and information from the sdk point of view. If i have breached etiquette then please accept my apologies and feel free to delete this post. (Though another reason for posting twice is i'm up against a deadline! ;)
I'm writing a Android NDK application, targeted at API 8, based on the * hello-gl2* example and so uses a single full-screen OpenGL2.0 view, (extended *GLSurfaceView*). I need to bring up the on-screen keyboard and pass the user entered text down to c code processing. I've managed to get this working based on this stackoverflow answer <http://stackoverflow.com/a/7425536/1184595>, (I don't get notification if the user closes the keyboard but from comments elsewhere in this group that seems to be the way things are. :) All is well with this method until i switch to *Swype* or any other more-advanced-then-stock keyboard input manager then i rarely get the key events. After reading the *KeyEvent* developer doc class overview what i'm seeing seems to be the expected behaviour: "*You should never rely on receiving KeyEvents for any key on a soft input method.*" So i've been trying to work out a way in which to capture and/or extract text and i'm not having much luck. I've got this code in my extended *GLSurfaceView *class: @Override public InputConnection onCreateInputConnection(EditorInfo outAttrs) { outAttrs.actionLabel = ""; outAttrs.hintText = ""; outAttrs.initialCapsMode = 0; outAttrs.initialSelEnd = outAttrs.initialSelStart = -1; outAttrs.label = ""; outAttrs.imeOptions = EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE | EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_EXTRACT_UI; outAttrs.inputType = InputType.TYPE_NULL; return new BaseInputConnection(this, false); } @Override public boolean onCheckIsTextEditor() { return true; } And i'm calling: *public boolean showSoftInput(View view, int flags)* passing in the view returned from '*getCurrentFocus*', from native code to display the keyboard. Is it possible to be able to extract the text from the on-screen software keyboard not using the keyup event? Is it possible to update what i've got to be able to do this or should i be looking at a completely different method? Apologies for the questions, as you can tell, the non-native Java side of Android development is quite new to me. :) Many thanks for any help or advice offered, Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
