[maemo-developers] hardware keyboard "open" event

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 22:07 +0100, ext Joaquim Rocha wrote:
> Hi Neal,
> 
> The physical keyboard opening/closing changes the GConf key
> "/system/osso/af/slide-open". All you need to do is to listen to this
> key and call your code.

Yes, or use libhal to get it from HAL directly. (Run "lshal -m" while
you open and close the slider to discover the related properties.)

-Kimmo

> 
> --
> Joaquim Rocha
> 
> Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In an application I'm working on, I'd like to show the search tool bar
> > if the user "opens" the hardware keyboard.  Is there a way to detect
> > this?  I've tried searching but have had no success; perhaps I'm using
> > the wrong keywords.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Neal
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