[Sugar-devel] Some queries regarding the Maliit OSK

[Ajay Garg]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Ajay Garg <ajaygargnsit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > In activities like FotoToon and Labyrinth, it is seen that the OSK does
> not
> > appear in ebook-mode (whereas it appears fine in other activities,
> wherever
> > it ought to be).
> >
> > My belief is that it is due to the incompatablity of FotoToon and
> Labyrinth
> > widgets, as compared to the other activities.
> > So, is there a way to have the maliit OSK come up in this cases too
> (perhaps
> > through any configuration tweek in maliit)?
> >
> > I am sorry for such a vague question, but any pointers will be highly
> > appreciated :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ajay
> >
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>
> Your assumption is correct. The OSK is invoked from a textview widget.
> I have a version of Labyrinth working with textview (See [1]).
> Flavio is working on the GTK3 port.
>
> Note that [1] is a slight compromise from the way that Labyrinth
> currently works in that, for expediency, I am processing the text
> attributes for the entire thought as opposed to multiple attributes
> per thought. (This is really complex and convoluted in Labyrinth and,
> IMHO, I don't think it is worth the additional effort at this point).
>
> Regarding Fototoons, I plan on making a similar intervention (less
> complex) after coordinating with Gonzalo. (There are a number of cool
> Fototoon enhancements queued up from GCI.)
>


Thanks for the reply !!
It helps clarifiy the current situations.



> regards.
>
> -walter
>
>
> [1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/~walter/labyrinth/walters-gtk2-touch
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>



Regards,

Ajay Garg
Dextrose Developer
Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com
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