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T9 English IME input for Android using hardware keypad. I am no longer updating this project. You may wish to try out sspanak's fork here: https://github.com/sspanak/tt9
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"Back" vs. "Del" #45

Closed levone1 closed 1 year ago

levone1 commented 1 year ago

Thank you for this. Very helpful on my Schok Flip phone. The stock keyboard is very jumpy/sticky, and this one seems much better. I have one issue I haven't been able to figure out...

By default, when the keyboard is active, (in a live text field), there is no way to backspace. The phone's "back" button, which will become "backspace", (del), by default, when typing, doesn't seem to recognize that I am in a text field when I have TraditionalT9 set as default IME., so instead of backspacing, it will navigate back to the previous screen. I can half-fix it by using your keymap function, making a keymap.txt file containing 4 67, so now it will del instead of back-navigating, but now, that function is modified globally, so no way to "go back", even when not typing...

I know I could do more complex key-remapping, and get used to different keys doing different things, but I just wondered if you had any better ideas. Any way maybe to make it so that the keymap mod only applies when in a text field, or...?

Clam- commented 1 year ago

I should probably get around to making this repo read only since I don't have any plans to work on it in the future. I'm not sure if I would be able to help. My phone (Mode 1, MD-02P) also has a single button for clear/back. However, on my phone when I am in a text field (regardless of the IME UI is showing) the clear button backspaces until there is no text then it backs. I don't use any specific keymap for the clear key, my keymap only has 138->1, 140->2.

I'm sorry that's about all I can help with. Hopefully someone in the community is able to help you out further. (P.S. by default the keymap does only apply to IME input unless you tick "Translate keys". Perhaps you have accidentally ticked Translate keys)

sspanak commented 1 year ago

You may want to try the new upgraded version here. All functions are fully customizable from the Settings screen, so you could assign the Backspace function to any key you want.

Clam- commented 1 year ago

@sspanak, woah, that's a lot of work you've done. Nice job. In a few days I'll make this repo read only and link to your repo in the readme.

Thanks for your efforts.

levone1 commented 1 year ago

You may want to try the new upgraded version here. All functions are fully customizable from the Settings screen, so you could assign the Backspace function to any key you want.

Looks and works beautifully - thank you