No text cursor when editing text

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Attempt to edit text on the console using an external blluetooth or usb 
keyboard.
2. Observe that moving the text entry position is possible by using the arrow 
keys on your keyboard (as evidenced by the fact that you can insert text into 
different positions on the commandline), but that there is no input cursor to 
show you where the next character will be entered.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?  A flashing vertical bar 
at the text entry position.  Instead we see nothing, but can work  out the 
position of the next character to be  entered either by trial and error or 
carefully counting the key presses.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Addi  1.82, Honeycomb 3.1 with bluetooth keyboard.

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mcstar on 10 Nov 2011 at 1:15

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any suggestion on a cheap keyboard to get to try this out?

Original comment by corbi...@gmail.com on 16 Nov 2011 at 6:37

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Hmmm, I use a curved Microsoft bluetooth keyboard, but it wasn't really cheap 
(about $45).  If you have a device with a usb connection, the same behavoir 
happens with a wired usb kb as well.  It's real strange though bcuz the cursor 
works in other applications.  You know, maybe its there, just the wrong color 
or something.  Black on black would be invisible.

Original comment by mcstar on 17 Nov 2011 at 1:01

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Android doesn't make it easy to override the functionality of the touchscreen 
keyboard.  There is actually no slick solution, at least in the open source 
space.  You have to override lots of functions in their standard GUI classes to 
get it to work as well as it does now.  Adding a matlab specific keyboard, was 
one of the most difficult changes I have done for Addi.  I am not surprised 
there is an issue.  I have one other report of an issue with a physical 
keyboard.  So, it looks like I need to do more debugging.  Got to try a usb or 
bluetooth keyboard.  

Original comment by corbi...@gmail.com on 18 Nov 2011 at 5:54

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If you click the downloads tab on this website, you will see an Addi35.apk  
Can you try this out?
You will need to remove your currently installed version of Addi first.
I still don't have an external keyboard, but I have a thought of what might be 
wrong.

Original comment by corbi...@gmail.com on 21 Nov 2011 at 7:09

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I believe this is fixed now, see latest release

Original comment by corbi...@gmail.com on 22 Nov 2011 at 11:18

• Changed state: Fixed

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That did it!  Addi35.apk now has a text cursor with external keyboards!  
Thanks,  a lot!  That makes it much easier to edit text.  I'm loving it!

Original comment by mcstar on 23 Nov 2011 at 3:43

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You're welcome!  Thanks for reporting the bug.  

Original comment by corbi...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2011 at 6:56