Using Android Swype and other Language abilities

[Albert Vaca]

I don't think it's possible for us to detect if the field we selected in
the computer is a text field that expects keyboard input. If that was
possible, though, it seems we could implement it that way (and sounds like
a good idea actually).

Albert

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Mark Lee <mark at markelee.com> wrote:

> On Friday, April 17, 2015 10:24:09 PM you wrote:
> > It would have pros (support for every language with every keyboard) but
> > also cons: you would not see what you type right away on the computer,
> but
> > instead you would have to enter an entire word/sentence and then press
> > "send". I'm open to include it as an option the users can enable, though,
> > if someone implements it.
> >
> > On Apr 17, 2015 9:10 PM, "Mark Lee" <mark at markelee.com> wrote:
> > > I noticed that key events are sent instead of UTF-8 characters. What
> would
> > > it
> > > take to implement sending whole words (via UTF-8 characters) in Kde
> > > Connect?
> > > This would take advantage of swype and also Android's various keyboard
> > > bindings. For example: I could use Google's cantonese keyboard to write
> > > Chinese using strokes.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Mark
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>
> What if we could replicate the text box idea in Android but in KDE? In
> Android
> we get the virtual keyboard when  we encounter a text box. A similar thing
> happens in KDE; would be possible to just pass this text box event from
> KDE to
> Android?
>
> Regards,
> Mark
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