3.0.0 beta (ZGE on Android)

jph_wacheski · Post by **jph_wacheski** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:53 am

Thanks Ville, it is working here again now.
Nice implementation BTW, I can add a menu or whatever on the back key,. . I'll post an update to BBH soon. Thanks again!

Post by **VilleK** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:06 am

Good that it works for both of you!

Kjell wrote:Couldn't recreate the error either, so not sure what went wrong the first time I tried.

I think the error message you got will appear if you send in a model of another type than the one the function expects. So the model that the function received did not have the array in definitions. Perhaps that happened in your case?

Rado1 · Post by **Rado1** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:14 pm

Hi,

today I connected my Nexus 7 to PC keyboard and mouse by OTG cable. Everything worked fine and some applications (including Eater) can be used better than in conventional way - mouse is much more precise than finger touch and real keyboard is faster than virtual one.

Mouse is working fine with ZGE applications, but keyboard is not recognized. I realize this is not a usual case, but would it be possible to handle events from external (or maybe also virtual) keyboard by KeyPress on Android?

Post by **VilleK** » Sat Jan 26, 2013 12:00 pm

Keys should already be detected, although I haven't been able to test it. Have you tried with both uppercase and lowercase characters in KeyPress?

Rado1 · Post by **Rado1** » Sat Jan 26, 2013 7:02 pm

Ville, I made a stupid mistake and used lower case for Keys. With upper case external keyboard detection works. That's great! How to recognize pressing keys with shift (upper case letters)?

jph_wacheski · Post by **jph_wacheski** » Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:46 pm

shouldn't this work,.

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ZZDC<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<KeyPress Comment="hold shift key AND" CharCode="16">
  <OnPressed>
    <KeyPress Name="letter" Comment="press letter key" Keys="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ">
      <OnPressed>
        <ZExpression>
          <Expression>
<![CDATA[//uppercase letters (shifted)
int ascii=65+letter.KeyIndex;]]>
          </Expression>
        </ZExpression>
      </OnPressed>
    </KeyPress>
  </OnPressed>
</KeyPress>

Got get a OTG adapter to test with,. .

Rado1 · Post by **Rado1** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:33 am

Jph, CharCode = 16 for shift is working only on PC, unfortunately not on Android. I tried to use also META_SHIFT_ON (1) and KEYCODE_SHIFT_LEFT (59) from SDK's KeyEvent class, but not working as well. Ville, could you please help?

Another problem I observed is that if ZApplication.EscapeToQuit is checked on, the application does not react to back button on Android as it previously did.

Post by **VilleK** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:03 am

Hi Rado1

Please try todays version, it should trigger separate keypresses for uppercase and lowercase letters on Android.

About the EscapeToQuit-problem, how do you mean? Does it not exit the app when you press back?

Rado1 · Post by **Rado1** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:38 am

Hi,

VilleK wrote:Please try todays version, it should trigger separate keypresses for uppercase and lowercase letters on Android.

I'll try it tonight when I'm at home. Does it mean that KeyPress.Keys accepts also lower-case letters?

VilleK wrote:About the EscapeToQuit-problem, how do you mean? Does it not exit the app when you press back?

Exactly.

Rado1 · Post by **Rado1** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:58 pm

Hi Ville,

I tested separate keypresses for uppercase and lowercase letters on Android. Everything works fine. Could not KeyPress.Keys accept lowercase letters also on Windows?

Post by **Kjell** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:07 am

Hi Rado1,

Rado1 wrote:KeyPress.Keys accept lowercase letters also on Windows?

The ASCII range representing lowercase letters ( 0x61 to 0x79 ) is used for other keys ( numpad / function-keys etc. ) on a regular keyboard.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 75731.aspx

K

Rado1 · Post by **Rado1** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:10 am

Thanks Kjell for explanation. I did not know that Keys are mapped directly to virtual-key codes. Implementation of KeyPress on Windows could provide a facade for handling lowercase and uppercase letters (pressing Shift key) on Windows anyway. But if it's too complicated or not conceptual or performance-decreasing, we can always use CharCode=16 to detect Shift, as Jph has shown in his example earlier. I just wanted to have the same code for Windows and Android.