Allow entry of characters not on the keyboard

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I saw the note about remapping something to control-a, but what about just
to a control key instead?  There's a fair amount of other control keys I
end up needing and it would be great to have access to that.

Thanks!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by interest...@gmail.com on 7 Oct 2008 at 6:59

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Another user with a G2 here.  The onscreen keyboard is disabled if the hardware 
keyboard is extended.  Consequently to type something like a caret or pipe 
symbol I have to close the the physical keyboard, open the software keyboard, 
type the symbol (several presses to get there) and then reopen the physical 
keyboard again!

A suggested solution is another software keyboard that can always be brought up 
covering the whole screen with lots of keys on it outside of what is on the 
regular keyboards such as the unixy punctuation, function keys and ctrl 
modifiers.  It can give hints at the bottom (eg you could have got F7 by 
holding down shift and 7).

Original comment by rogerbinns on 14 Nov 2010 at 9:53

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Issue 343: "Need support for Ctrl, Alt and arrow keys on X10 Mini Pro" could be 
merged into this issue. And yes, Issue 343 should not be a defect, but an 
enhancement!

One question, if this is addressed in  Milestone-Release1.4, what release is 
the current one on the market, please? On my X10 mini pro it says "ConnectBot 
1.7.1(v1.7.1 2010.10.08)" which would indicate a much higher version?

Thanks for the work!

Original comment by makeser...@gmail.com on 13 Dec 2010 at 8:09

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I am also a tmobile G2 user and the lack of pipe character drives me crazy. 
Please allow that useless www./.com key to be remapped to the pipe char in 
connectbot. Thanks for the great app!

Original comment by iiordanov@gmail.com on 2 Jan 2011 at 2:58

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So, when is 1.4 coming? I'm impatient

Original comment by ghostfre...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2011 at 7:35

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You can take a look to this
https://github.com/irssiconnectbot/irssiconnectbot/commit/1435a6f0718ca3c673d80c
eff1857ce3394932ad

Original comment by thel...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2011 at 7:59

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Have I missed something? Is 1.4 going to allow remapping keys?

Thanks!

Original comment by iiordanov@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2011 at 8:31

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Would it be possible to allow users to customize hotkey?
ie: User A could set his vol up button to perform ESC and his vol down to 
perform CTRL
User B may set his vol up to ALT and hos vol down to TAB.

Could you please also take a look at inserting the ` key to perform the command 
actions?

Original comment by Alu...@gmail.com on 17 Jul 2011 at 8:14

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Tried to use it on a Sony Xperia Pro - the on-screen-"CTRL" is of no use, 
please make hardware keys like the camera key etc. configurable to set it to 
CTRL or other useful things. 
Input of F1 - F10 is nearly impossible e.g. for htop and neither a virtual 
keyboard nor the "tap to bring CTRL-Symbol on Screen" works there.
BTW - F10 never works (tried the 'hackers keyboard'...)

Original comment by dam...@gmx.de on 31 Oct 2011 at 4:16

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I own a SE Xperia Pro, and am also frustrated by the lack of certain keys. I 
also agree with other posters that the onscreen ctrl key seem to be 
nonfunctional. On the physical keyboard there is a 'sym' key and a i18n button 
which currently doesn't do anything. If needed I would love to run som type of 
app to learn what keycodes that these keys produce.

Original comment by anygard...@gmail.com on 3 Nov 2011 at 3:20

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Hi, I have the Captivate Glide and I can use CTRL and ESC by respectively 
pressing the OK key. I can not however use any Function keys either on the soft 
or hardware keyboards. A soft key set with only special keys would be nice.

Thanx 

Original comment by christop...@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2011 at 8:26

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See here:
http://code.google.com/r/martin-xperia-connectbot/source/detail?r=26ea6c814448c3
e0b790afc2ce1b2bb5d7ce0db7
http://code.google.com/r/martin-xperia-connectbot/source/detail?r=f99a99091fce7e
520b142dbf7bc99af87c2fc20b

Original comment by mar...@matuska.org on 5 Dec 2011 at 9:47

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Will it be possible to make Alt+Shift combinations for non-keyboard characters 
on phones (such as SE Xperia Pro) where this is not yet supported? I'd also 
like to see the Sym and i18n keys usable as Ctrl and Meta.

Also, I notice that since switching from the G1 to Xperia Pro, there is no 
visible cursor change when Alt or Shift is tapped. As my shift key sometimes 
stays on after a single press (switch bounce?), this means I have no way of 
knowing whether I'm typing in caps or not except by typing some letters to see.

Original comment by ray.we...@googlemail.com on 6 Jan 2012 at 1:54

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I have integrated a character picker dialog triggered by a new onscreen SYM 
symbol or a corresponding hardware key (if available). The implementation is 
inspired by Irssi ConnectBot but I have been little more user-friendly - users 
can define their own custom contents of the dialog (e.g. special or national 
characters) in the settings menu. You can try it out in VX ConnectBot at 
http://connectbot.vx.sk. It is open source with Apache License, source code is 
available on GitHub - https://github.com/vx/connectbot). It would be nice to 
have this or a similiar feature in original ConnectBot, too :-)

Original comment by martin.m...@vx.sk on 9 Jan 2012 at 11:12

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I don't have any problem with Ctrl and F10 and other keys using ConnectBot + 
Hacker's keayboard. I don't need VX ConnectBot or Irssi ConnectBot because 
Hacker's keyboard gives me all keys I need.

Original comment by dmitry.a...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2012 at 8:26