windows ce hardware keyboard help

By dougt | Published: March 25, 2009

Many devices have both hardware keyboards as well as a software keyboard.

In Fennec, we need to know if we should ask Windows to display the software keyboard when the user clicks in a text box. For example, if the device has a hardware keyboard exposed to the user (in that they see it in front of them), we don’t want to show the software keyboard.

I have tried:

1) HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Shell\HasKeyboard. This value stays the same no matter if the keyboard slide to the open position or not.

2) GetKeyboardStatus(). Same as above

3) Smart Auto-Deploy event. I tried listening for the “_KeyPress” event. That seems to work fine (I know that a key was pressed on the hardware keyboard), but it really doesn’t tell you if the keyboard has been slide closed again.

Anyone know how to do this?

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2 Comments

  1. doug turner
    Posted August 20, 2009 at 10:31 am | Permalink

    We can check the current state of slide out keyboard from the registry
    “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GDI\Rotation\Slidekey”

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341772#c25

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  2. snio
    Posted October 10, 2009 at 1:36 am | Permalink

    http://www.hlcsuperstore.com/computers_input-devices_keyboards.html

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