Anyone know how to get the virtual keyboard to not overlap the ConnectBot typing area when in landscape mode?
It works fine in portrait mode, when the cursor gets to the keyboard it stays above it and the text at the top scrolls up off the screen. However in landscape this doesn't happen till you type enough to get to the bottom of the screen and by then you're text is well behind the virtual keyboard.
I came from a Droid 2 Global, so I haven't used the virtual keyboard with connectbot before. Oh, and I have the Liberty ROM installed too.
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When opened in landscape view the two hotkeys on the keyboard replace the pivoting external hotkeys that are normally below the screen when closed, but are now to the right of the screen.
The external keys still work but are effectively redundant due to the hotkeys on the keyboard.
Would it be possible when the keyboard is open to use the external hotkeys as a smooth scroll for the screen - as there is little point in using a stylus with the keyboard out - as the sliders are too small for me to use with my fingers?
I use PIE with PIEPlus 2.2 for browsing, and every time I click into a text box on a web page the on screen keyboard pops up - this is very annoying as I use full screen mode and this causes the screen to come out of full screen mode while the keyboard pops up. Also I'm in landscape mode with the hardware keyboard slid out, so the on-screen keyboard is not needed.
I'm sure this problem never happened before, I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a setting or whatever I might have changed?
Use nullkeyboard
http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/nullkeyboard.shtml
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=986881&highlight=
Also, if you start typing on the hardware keyboard while te software keyboard is on the screen, it'll disappear and only reappears when you tap te "keyboard button" instead of appearing every time you select a text box.
Is there any way to set swype up so that when you go into landscape it puts the spacebar at the bottom center of the screen?
Or even better. Have it use Swype on Portrait and Stock Android keyboard on Landscape.
I'm not a fan of the spacebar on the right nor swyping with landscape.. I like to type with my thumbs.
Any solution?
I too want a separate keyboard in landscape, but after realizing it probably won't happen I set my default to htc_ime and then when I want to text portrait I just long press and temporarily set to swype. I like it that way since swype doesn't do urls to well for me (nonstandard words)
As far as the location of the space, i think if it was centered it would interfere with the swiping?
The point is that I wouldn't swype when I'm in landscape, I'd type on the swype keyboard. I prefer a middle space for that.
I guess I'll just go with your method, though.
I actually don't have my Vibrant yet. It's coming today. Pumped as hell.
So, no solution?
First post after having my DX an entire week, trying to find what I can without being too noob but can't seem to find a solution to this.
I tend to type 99% of the time in landscape and seeing how the keyboard takes up 90% of the screen, I often can't see what fields I'm entering for the text. The keyboard automatically opens when attempting to input and assumed if I pressed outside of a text field, it would close the keyboard but no go.. Is there anyway to close the keyboard, even if it's just to scroll on whatever page I'm on to see what else is there then come back to the keyboard when I'm ready by clicking within the text area?
That probably made no sense but hopefully you get the jist of it. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: The back button seemed to work, disregard.
You can also swype from the top of the keyboard to the bottom and it will minimize.
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Also you can press/hold the menu button to close. You can also do this to raise the keyboard at any time.
Has anyone found a way to enable the on screen keyboard when holding the phone in portrait mode. It would be cool to use T-9 occasionally when typing one handed.