Anyone get the leanback keyboard apk to work right? I can move the cursor with the d-pad but I can't select. Somehow the select has to be mapped to the A button.
Phoenix4848 said:
Anyone get the leanback keyboard apk to work right? I can move the cursor with the d-pad but I can't select. Somehow the select has to be mapped to the A button.
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Did you try any others? Personally I'm a fan of Hacker's Keyboard, if I have to use a virtual one. It's laid out like a real keyboard, and it has arrow keys.
Hacker's keyboard doesn't work with d-pad
kevinthefixer said:
Did you try any others? Personally I'm a fan of Hacker's Keyboard, if I have to use a virtual one. It's laid out like a real keyboard, and it has arrow keys.
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Supposedly the leanback keyboard was supposed to work with the d-pad. Which it does. Unfortunately I can't select. The hacker's keypad doesn't let you move with the d-pad.
I found the leanback keyboard here:
forum.xda-developers.com/hard...nback-t2814210
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I like to emulate the stylus select and hold with the device keyboard. How can I do it?
I don't know about the keyboard, but you can assign a hardware key to show the context menu, or use VJKeyPress I think.
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Carmi said:
I like to emulate the stylus select and hold with the device keyboard. How can I do it?
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how about "Fn + Space" ??
Is there Fn key on Wizard?
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there isn't an "FN" key but there is a key with a dot on it that works as an "FN" key would. And i just tried it and space, along with enter and ok and no luck.
I'm the only one that like to open the context menu with the device keyborad? :lol:
I hold the central button of the d-pad to do that.
Not so far the keyboard...
coeptum, 10x
With the on screen keyboard?
In ConnectBot, this is accomplished by pressing the trackball followed by the letter i.
daveid said:
In ConnectBot, this is accomplished by pressing the trackball followed by the letter i.
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This is just for that app though, correct?
Is there a way to do it in any text field?
The leaked betas of the swype keyboard had a fourth keyboard with tab/up/down/left/right/page up/page down/etc. However, that seems to have been removed.
Just depends on the keyboard.
muncheese said:
The leaked betas of the swype keyboard had a fourth keyboard with tab/up/down/left/right/page up/page down/etc. However, that seems to have been removed.
Just depends on the keyboard.
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Is there any way to input a Tab into any text field with the Standard Android keyboard or the HTC keyboard ?
Swype actually still has the tab key.
If you swype from the info key to the sym key you'll get the functions keyboard which includes tab, up/down/ctrl/etc.
muncheese said:
Swype actually still has the tab key.
If you swype from the info key to the sym key you'll get the functions keyboard which includes tab, up/down/ctrl/etc.
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HAH!
WOW! How in the HECK did you find that out??
I did the entire tutorial and it never mentioned that. Swipe from the Swype key to the SYM key... How in the hell do they expect people to know that???
Anyway, I am mostly wanting this for the terminal to autocomplete file names. Unfortunately, swype isn't too useful in terminals... Switching keyboards back and forth is a pain (I used Swype for a few weeks, didn't like it).
I'll do this for now, but if anyone knows a way to do it with the normal keyboard, I'm still interested in that information!
[Edit]: Just tested it in terminal. Yeah damn that is annoying.
cd... tap cd on screen... few letters... swype to sym... tab... abc... few letters... swype to sym... tab, FFFFFFF
I have a question on how to make this phone better... I've never used the iPhone really, other than to jailbreak it for my fiancee. Now that I have the Vibrant, I noticed ridiculously difficult it is to place your cursor in a particular spot. You can't use a stylus, there's no "magnifying glass" like the iPhone has, and there are no arrow buttons on the on-screen keyboard (as there was on my HTC Touch Pro 2). Basically, it'll take me 5-6 taps (or more) to get the cursor where I want it.
Is there any app or hack that can fix this?
If you are using samsung keyboard, then keep pressing the "123" button until more controls shows up, theres cursor control.
You can flash or wait for froyo release it comes with a cursor
Thanks to both of you. The 123 option is a PITA, but it's something. Good to know that Froyo is gonna have a cursor. Thank goodness....
Flapjack said:
Thanks to both of you. The 123 option is a PITA, but it's something. Good to know that Froyo is gonna have a cursor. Thank goodness....
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I couldn't the 123 option to work. When I press the 123 button, I get four pages of symbols... no directional cursor movements. What am I doing wrong?
If you are using the Swype keyboard, drag your finger from the Swype info button (bottom left corner) to the SYM key (next one to the right). Several cursor control options there, plus a few other handy items.
Also, if you didn't know, dragging from the Swype info button to the "F" key will switch the keyboard into a number keypad.
Flapjack said:
I couldn't the 123 option to work. When I press the 123 button, I get four pages of symbols... no directional cursor movements. What am I doing wrong?
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You need to hold 123, not just click it.
BronzedDroid said:
You need to hold 123, not just click it.
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Awesome. Thanks for the help. It's exactly what I needed. Will hold me off until Froyo.
Alternativelly you can use the HTC_IME (which is the HTC keyboard) and set the volume buttons to work as up and down. Pretty handy when you want the cursor to skip a few characters. Though indeed the lack of cursor buttons always visible on the keyboard is kind of irritating especially if you come from an HTC.
stormrain said:
Alternativelly you can use the HTC_IME (which is the HTC keyboard) and set the volume buttons to work as up and down. Pretty handy when you want the cursor to skip a few characters. Though indeed the lack of cursor buttons always visible on the keyboard is kind of irritating especially if you come from an HTC.
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I actually went through the process of installing the HTC keyboard, which I loved on my Touch Pro 2. It was laggy as hell and basically unusable. I also did not notice any directional arrows.
I've been meaning to try that keyboard again, since I did the one-touch lag fix. I'll do that right now.
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I can't find the option to use the volume buttons to move the cursor. It's also nowhere near as fast as the Samsung keyboard. Not sure why, but I have to seriously slow down my typing to get it to recognize each key press individually. I was hoping it would be better once I did the lag fix. I guess it's a separate issue...
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I actually went through the process of installing the HTC keyboard, which I loved on my Touch Pro 2. It was laggy as hell and basically unusable. I also did not notice any directional arrows.
I've been meaning to try that keyboard again, since I did the one-touch lag fix. I'll do that right now.
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I can't find the option to use the volume buttons to move the cursor. It's also nowhere near as fast as the Samsung keyboard. Not sure why, but I have to seriously slow down my typing to get it to recognize each key press individually. I was hoping it would be better once I did the lag fix. I guess it's a separate issue...
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Hmmm I do not have any lag issues with the keyboard.
Have you tried Calibrating it? That option is in Settings (within the program, activated by long pressing the language toggle key)>Text Input>Calibration tool.
Unfortunatelly, indeed, there are no directional arrows in the layout.
The option to set the volume buttons is in Settings (again, within the keyboard itself)>User Interface>Volume Keys.
EDIT: I don't really have any opinion about the default samsung keyboard as it does not support my language (go figure lol) so I have never used it.
So let me start out by saying I like the default JB keyboard. However it is missing 2 crucial things for me. A tab button and the ability to long press keys. Has there been any modding going on yet for the keyboard?
Long press keys work fine
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
pixelchemist said:
Long press keys work fine
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I miss all the extra long-press characters, too. It used to be the top row could be long-pressed for numbers and stuff, and other keys for other symbols. I never use the accents anyway, though I think it is good that Google includes them.
I really like the new keyboard, too. I still use thumb keyboard instead, so I can have escape, tab, page up and page down keys, but I prefer how the default keyboard provides various punctuation. It's easy to get to the - and _ symbols, apostrophe and comma have their own keys, and so on.
The new look is very clean, though.
ldrn said:
I miss all the extra long-press characters, too. It used to be the top row could be long-pressed for numbers and stuff, and other keys for other symbols. I never use the accents anyway, though I think it is good that Google includes them.
I really like the new keyboard, too. I still use thumb keyboard instead, so I can have escape, tab, page up and page down keys, but I prefer how the default keyboard provides various punctuation. It's easy to get to the - and _ symbols, apostrophe and comma have their own keys, and so on.
The new look is very clean, though.
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I'm going to try and use the keyboard from the cm9 rom on the touchpad since it has more options for long press keys and a tab button. Hopefully it installs.
Long press is working great on 4.1.1 keyboard. My question is if there is a way to enable popup on key press. Not only I like that feature but it helps me type also. Thanks!
Hacker's Keyboard from the Play Store will give you either the Gingerbread style keyboard or a full 5 row keyboard.
Both the Gingerbread and 5 row keyboard have the long-press feature on the number keys, with the full set of symbols. It also has popup keys.
The 5 row is a full keyboard with arrow keys, ESC, CTL, ALT, FN keys, etc. Works great in terminal emulator, it's essential with vi.
I use the 4 row Gingerbread in portrait mode and the 5 row in landscape. That's the default, but you can change it.
The only thing I don't like in Hacker's Keyboard is the click sound - it is much louder than the stock click. Probably easy to fix by swapping out a resource or sound file, but I haven't looked.
i am looking for any keyboard which has arrow option like pc i tried other keyboard they have arrow keys but for copy and paste functions and can be used once only and disappear then we have to bring it back i m looking it for irc chat or cmd prompt like using upper key it repeat previous sentences.
i like stock keyboard but it dont hv arrow feature also is there any way to use any keyboard dictionary to other keyboards i am looking for hinglish
raj90012000 said:
i am looking for any keyboard which has arrow option like pc i tried other keyboard they have arrow keys but for copy and paste functions and can be used once only and disappear then we have to bring it back i m looking it for irc chat or cmd prompt like using upper key it repeat previous sentences.
i like stock keyboard but it dont hv arrow feature also is there any way to use any keyboard dictionary to other keyboards i am looking for hinglish
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Swiftkey !
Another vote for Swiftkey, simply the best keyboard there is!
works nicely
Rayan said:
Another vote for Swiftkey, simply the best keyboard there is!
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working great with swiftkey newversions are nice