[yocto] FW: Virtual keyboard ?

[Vellemans, Noel]

Hi Gary,

Tweaked my arm configuration (with touch-screen) as you said and, ok I
see a virtual keyboard poping-up as YOU expected. So far so good.

But now I'm facing another question that I would like to try.

I would like to open a web-page (BUT do not have WEB-browser on this
yocto-1.0 build, correct me if I'm wrong {please} ) I wonder what will
happen if I touch an edit-field located on the 'bottom' of the screen
(this is where the virtual key-board-pops-up)?

Do you have (or know wher to find) any INFO onhow this 'auto-pupop' of
the virtual keyboard is working (in other words how does the key-board
getting triggered to be shown/hidden) ?

Regards Noel.


PS: sorry for forgetting the CC to the mailing list.






-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com]
Sent: 30Sep11 16:09
To: Vellemans, Noel
Subject: Re: [yocto] Virtual keyboard ?

On 2011-09-30 08:05, Vellemans, Noel wrote:
> Ok, I'll give it a try...
>
> At this time I'm running an ARMV7 build on imx537 cpu (w. a mouse and 
> keyb), but I'll tweak the config and connect a Touch-screen to it ..
> To give it a try.
>
> Thanks for the response

Good luck.  Note: it's polite to copy replies on the mailing list so
that everyone can see it and benefit from the discussion.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com]
> Sent: 30Sep11 15:54
> To: Vellemans, Noel
> Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] Virtual keyboard ?
>
> On 2011-09-30 07:31, Vellemans, Noel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a question where I can not find an direct answer to on the
> Yocto-web/wiki.
>>
>> I wonder if the Yocto-arm-sato build supports a device that has
> no-REAL keyboard but only a touch-screen.
>>
>> If so, does the VIRTUAL-keyboard pup-op automatically, if you touch
> something that is editable (like in android and/or meego) ?
>
> Yes, this works fine.  You just need to set these in
> /etc/formfactor/machconfig:
>     HAVE_TOUCHSCREEN=1
>     HAVE_KEYBOARD=0
>
>> NOTE : I've been playing with the Yocto-1.0 build into qemu and I do
> not find how to 'REMOVE' the virtual keyboard once it is visible on 
> screen.
>
> If it comes up by demand, it will go away when you press enter.
>
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