keyboard

How to dismiss keyboard for UITextView with return key?

In IB's library, the introduction tells us that when the return key is pressed, the keyboard for UITextView will disappear. But actually the return key can only act as '\n'. I can add a button and use [txtView resignFirstResponder] to hide the keyboard. But is there a way to add the action for the return key in keyboard so that I needn...

Access to the iPhone system keyboard

I've seen some good information (on this site, especially) on how to place a toolbar on top of the keyboard when it is in view. But what I really want to do is make my toolbar a subview of the keyboard, with a frame such that it sits on the top edge of the keyboard. To do that, I would need to have the pointer to the keyboard itself. ...

How does 2 or more processes interact with the keyboard?

Hello. I have been thinking alot over keyboard handling. How does it work? I cant seem to google me to a good explaining. I know that a keyboard interrupt is made every time a key is pressed. The processor halts whatever it is processing and load the keyboard data from the keyboard buffer, storing it in a system level buffer. But what ha...

Intercepting the Nokia Ctrl/Chr key press in Java

I'm trying to intercept the Ctrl/Chr key on a full QWERTY Nokia device (E71). It seems like the keyPress event isn't generated for this particular key. Any ideas? ...

Keyboard Mapping in .NET

If I know that a certain key has been pressed (eg Key.D3), and that the Shift key is also down (Keyboard.IsKeyDown(Key.LeftShift) || Keyboard.IsKeyDown(Key.RightShift)), how can I find out what character that refers to (eg, '#' on US keyboard, UK pound sign on UK keyboard, etc)? Put another way, how can I find out, programatically, that...

Android - Activation of the system key lock

I have to activate android's system key lock (the one you get when you press the power off/*hang up* button). See here: I already browsed the docs but everything I found was PowerManager and KeyguardManager. Both seem not to be the solution :-(. So, does everyone know how to achieve that from a android application? (If special permis...

Keyboard Appearance Defaults to UIKeyboardAppearanceDefault on Dismissal

First time Stack Overflow poster. Please bear with me! :) I have a set of UITextFields whose keyboard appearance I set in Interface Builder. I'm using the UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert appearance (the translucent look) for my keyboards. However, whenever I call resignFirstResponder on any of these text fields to dismiss the keyboard, the ke...

Monitoring low level hooks [C]

Is there any kind of way to monitor the low level keyboard hooks in a Windows enviroment. Say if I am making a program trying to find keyloggers. ...

What is the Windows Forms equivalent of the WPF's Keyboard class?

Question says it all - is there a class somewhere in Windows Forms that has the same functionality as the WPF System.Windows.Input.Keyboard? Or am I stuck always having to handle the keyboard events and keep my own state? (I'm specifically interested in a Forms analogue to IsKeyDown). Alternatively, is there a no-fuss way to use this ...

Find out the character pressed key

If I add a listener to KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, I can find out the keyCode and the charCode. The keyCode maps to a different character depending on the keyboard. The charCode is just as useless, according to the help: The character code values are English keyboard values. For example, if you press Shift+3, charCode is # on a Japanes...

How do I handle multiple key press in java?

How do I handle multiple key press in java? I'm trying to write a game and need to handle multiple keys presses at once. When I'm holding a key (let's say to move forward) and then I hold another key (eg: to turn left), the new key is detected but the old pressed key isn't being detected anymore. ...

Emacs: getting readable keyboard-macros

When using insert-kbd-macro to save a named keyboard-macro I get "unreadable" lisp-code like (fset 'ppsql (lambda (&optional arg) "Keyboard macro." (interactive "p") (kmacro-exec-ring-item (quote ([134217788 134217765 44 return 44 17 10 return 33 134217765 102 102 backspace 114 111 109 return 17 10 102 111 109 backspace backspace 114...

Forwarding a Keystroke to another Control in WinForms

I am receiving a keystroke in a Form object's OnKeyDown. When some conditions are met (such as the keystroke is a printable character and not a hotkey) I want to forward the key to a text control on the form and set focus to the text control so the user can continue typing. I am able to decode the character typed using MapVirtualKey but ...

Capturing the windows key in c# (wpf).

I have written a small program displaying sounds and images on the screen when pushing any button. I always start it when one of my little kids crawls onto my lap and start hitting the keys, of course, randomly. It works fine except for 2 keys, one of them being the ON/OFF switch, the other being the Windows-key. (the CTRL-ESC equivale...

iPhone UIWebview: How to force a numeric keyboard? Is it possible?

I'm experimenting with PhoneGap to develop some iPhone apps. PhoneGap basically wraps a UIWebView - it works well. The problem is the my app has several input fields that only take numeric input. I really need to force the numeric keypad instead of accepting the default standard keyboard, which then forces the user to switch to the num...

Hexadecimal numpad

The project I am currently working on requires a lot of hexadecimal numbers to be entered into the code. I once saw a pic of an old keyboard with a hexadecimal numpad (has A-F letters on it also) replacing the normal numpad. Anyone know where I can get one of these? ...

Problem capturing Japanese character input with Javascript in IE

I am trying to pass keyboard input from Javascript into a Flex app being displayed with Internet Explorer with the input language set to Japanese (using Full Katakana) in the Windows XP language bar. After an initial keystroke, I am passing focus from Javascript to a text field in Flex. Once the focus is in Flex, the IME wakes up and i...

Converting keyboard characters

I'd like to find/write a program that can intercept all characters entered at a keyboard and map Dvorak to QWERTY if a control character is depressed. I would normally type in Dvorak, but as soon as I typed in a control character such as CTRL or ALT my input would switch to Dvorak. For example CTRL-D would become CTRL-E. The operating s...

keyboard hook interact with all desktops c++ win32

Is it possible to make a keyboard hook work on all desktops? For example, could I make it record keys on the winlogon desktop and interactive desktop at the same time? If so how? Thanks for the help! EDIT: Figured it out. I modified ctrl2cap driver to log keys. ...

Custom Keyboard on iPhone

What's the easiest way to implement a custom keyboard on the iPhone? I basically want an action sheet that keeps part of my interface visible, but I want to load my own view into it, preferably via nib. I've been looking into modal views, but I'm getting the feeling I'm going in the wrong direction. ...