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Talk:Changing keyboard layout on Touchpad

2011-08-29T20:15:53Z

Qurgh:

== Cursor keys ==

Thanks for this; one thing I very quickly realised was the most amazing omission from the TP keyboard was any way of moving the cursor (especially if you mis-type a long web address), specifically [home] [end] [->] and [<-] options. I had been wondering whether the layout itself could be amended to insert a generic ''cursor-move'' key (pref by reducing the width of the space bar and adding [<-] and [->] under the 'n' and 'm' keys, with shift giving the [home] and [end], but the info here suggests that may not be possible. Having other options on the [Tab] key might be? Anyway, anyone else looking at possible ways to add these oh-so-necessary functions? --[[User:AlisonW|AlisonW]] 12:21, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Nope, sorry. As I get it, it is mostly not even keyboard but paste tool. All it does is pasting characters that are assigned to buttons in text. May be there are special buttons for moving cursor programmed somewhere in binary, but as they are not present in standard layouts itself I cannot say which codes they can have.
[[User:Compvir|Compvir]] 12:29, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

== Keys not sending ==

I edited one of the layouts to create a pIqaD keyboard, and the new keyboard layout patches fine and displays correctly (except for the 5 and 6 keys which show arabic characters instead even though they display correctly elsewhere in the OS). Unfortunately none of the keys will send the new characters when tapped. The SETs still popup and work correctly thoughA copy of the layout can be found [http://www.wizage.net/302.klingon.template.json here] and a screen shot is [http://twitpic.com/6d7zrv here]. Any ideas as to why it won't send them? I can copy and paste the same Unicode characters from an app I made and they display correctly. --[[User:Qurgh|Qurgh]] 19:09, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Hard to say. There can be some internal limitation. Though Klingon characters are in range of UTF-16 they are pretty close to it's end. Patched file (I've tested your json) is pertty normal. Characters are normal as should be. So The only reason I can see they are not typing should be some limit in interpretation of them by webOS.
[[User:Compvir|Compvir]] 19:36, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I'm able to use the characters in other apps (I have an Enyo app that converts roman characters to Unicode, which I can then copy/paste into other apps and just type) so I'm guessing this is a limitation of LunaSysMgr and not webOS in general. I guess more research is needed. Maybe I'll try asking on the HP Dev boards. --[[User:Qurgh|Qurgh]] 20:15, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Changing keyboard layout on Touchpad

2011-08-29T19:09:18Z

Qurgh:

Talk:Changing keyboard layout on Touchpad

2011-08-29T18:22:57Z

Qurgh:

Talk:Changing keyboard layout on Touchpad

2011-08-29T18:06:37Z

Qurgh:

Talk:Changing keyboard layout on Touchpad

2011-08-29T18:06:06Z

Qurgh:

Talk:On Screen Keyboard

2009-09-15T16:37:55Z

Qurgh:

Discuss bugs, implementation issues, installation issues and feature requests here:

Related to the last bullet in the issues list (text boxes getting moved behind keyboard because notifications don't resize the keyboard) - when a notification pops up, it covers the bottom row of keys on the keyboard (spacebar, shift, etc.), and they do not get re-drawn until you close and reopen the keyboard.
--[[User:Swankgd|Swankgd]] 07:09, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Can someone post instructions on how to get this working on the emulator? I'm trying to change the language of the keyboard for someone else and I don't have a Pre. Also I'm assuming that the section that starts around line 1252 of the add-onscreen-keyboard.patch file is where the outputted characters are set. If I want to change it to output  instead of q, do I change the Keycode, letter or list variables? --[[User:Qurgh|Qurgh]] 16:37, 15 September 2009 (UTC)