[maemo-developers] JaLiMo

[From: Sebastian Mancke]

Hi,

thanks, this way works fine!

Regards,
  Sebastian

Antti Ijäs schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> No key-press (or release) events are produced by the virtual keyboard to
> the main window, so no wonder you're not getting them ;) The keyboard
> itself is a standalone process with it's own window (AFAIK).
> 
> But, the text is committed to the entry through the IMContext API. My
> suggestions for you would be to create an instance of a
> GtkIMMultiContext and take the text from there using semi-standard
> IMContext API. At least you should:
> 
> 1) gtk_im_context_set_client_window(im_context,
> this_can_probably_be_your_gtkwindow)
> 
> 2) connect to the "commit" and "preedit-changed" signals
> 
> 3) then do gtk_im_context_focus_in() and/or gtk_im_context_show()
> 
> 4) on "preedit-changed" call for gtk_im_context_get_preedit_string()
> 
> 5) also give a try on gtk_im_context_hide() and/or
> gtk_im_context_focus_out()
> 
> Hope this helps :)
> 
> / Antti
> 
> Sebastian Mancke wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Eero Tamminen schrieb:
>>>> Additionally to this, we have played around with midpath, a J2ME
>>>> implementation. Guillaume Legris from midpath wrote a gtk backend, for
>>>> it. Currently this effort hangs, because I don't get the key events from
>>>> the hildon/gtk libraries of the soft keyboard.
>>> Have you disabled the automatic Hildon IM Gtk plugin loading somehow?
>> Not that I know. To get the input in an GtkEntry works, for example.
>> But on an input with the soft keyboard, no 'key-press-event' on the
>> GtkWindows is raised. (The hardware 5-key button raises the instead.)
>>
>> For the midpath backend, I have only a GtkWindow with a GtkDrawingArea
>> in it. I have to get the key events to push them back to the java code.
>>
>> At https://garage.maemo.org/snippet/browse.php?by=cat&cat=12
>> there is a snipped, to get the raw xlient messages
>> (_HILDON_IM_INSERT_UTF8) and create X events from their payload. But
>> isn't there a better solution within gtk?
>>
>>> All normally launched Gtk applications in the device should get it
>>> automatically:
>>> # pid=$(pidof maemo_af_desktop|cut -d' ' -f1)
>>> # grep hildon-im /proc/$pid/maps
>>> 41580000-41587000 r-xp 00000000 1f:04 2473
>>> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules/hildon-im-module.so
>> My result is:
>> 41094000-4109a000 r-xp 00000000 1f:04 1989
>> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules/hildon-im-module.so
>> 4109a000-410a1000 ---p 00006000 1f:04 1989
>> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules/hildon-im-module.so
>> 410a1000-410a2000 rw-p 00005000 1f:04 1989
>> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules/hildon-im-module.so
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Sebastian
>>
> 


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