[maemo-developers] Controlling virtual keyboard from Python application?

[From: Tony Maro]

On 8/13/07, Mohammad Anwari <mohammad.anwari at nokia.com> wrote:
>
> Pada hari Senin, tanggal 13/08/2007 pukul 10:50 -0400, ext Igor Tkach
> menulis:
> > Does anybody know if there's a way to interact with the virtual
> > keyboard from a Python (Pymaemo) app, i.e. programmatically bring it
> > up or hide it? What about finger keyboard?
>
> There is no easy way to do that, but you probably could try to emulate
> the triggers (e.g. the stylus or finger tap on the text entry), so the
> Hildon Input Method wakes up and invoke the input method based on the
> trigger.



I would propose that this is a bad idea.  I use a Bluetooth keyboard about
40% of the time, and Maemo is very good about NOT popping up the keyboard
when my BT keyboard is active.

That said, I have noticed that something in gre-calendar interferes with the
pop-up keyboard.  You can get the smaller keyboard but not the finger
keyboard when entering a new event.
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