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a control on the IOS keyboard possible ?

Post by jmburnod » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:19 pm

Hi All,
Does someone have tried to have a control on the IOS keyboard ?
I have a custom cursor (a grc) the user can move with one click only.
I want the user can use this custom cursor on the IOS keyboard to type letters.

Other ideas are welcome
(i have explored screenmouseloc but it is not available on IOS)

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Re: a control on the IOS keyboard possible ?

Post by Mark » Sat Jul 21, 2012 5:29 pm

Hi Jean-Marc,

This is impossible and if you found a hack to make it possible, I don't think Apple would allow it.

Why do you want this and what kind of characters do you want to be able to type?

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Re: a control on the IOS keyboard possible ?

Post by jacque » Sat Jul 21, 2012 5:52 pm

The keyboard is overlaid on top of the card, and any LiveCode controls will appear under it. It isn't possible to bring your own objects to the top.
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Re: a control on the IOS keyboard possible ?

Post by jmburnod » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:15 pm

Hi Mark, Jacque,

Thank for this confirmation.
i will do a custom keyboard
Why do you want this and what kind of characters do you want to be able to type?
This is for handicaped people they can do one click only
I want to be able to type alphabetics chars (with diacriticals), punctuation,numbers and "@"

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Re: a control on the IOS keyboard possible ?

Post by Mark » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:52 pm

Jean-Marc,

That is exactly how the iOS keyboard works already. Can you be more specific about what you're trying to accomplish?

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Re: a control on the IOS keyboard possible ?

Post by jmburnod » Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:15 pm

Hi Mark,
Can you be more specific about what you're trying to accomplish?
Some people can do one click on one place only
I use it to move a custom cursor (cli1),stop it (clic2), and send a message to the control under the cursor.
In this case the control is a letter of a keeyboard which put the letter after a field.

For OSX version i have made a custom keyboard
I hoped I could use the keyboard IOS but it seems that I am going to have to make one for IOS

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Re: a control on the IOS keyboard possible ?

Post by Dixie » Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:36 am

Jean-Marc...

This is not exactly what you want, but it might give you some ideas on using the iOS keyboard to move things around

be well

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Re: a control on the IOS keyboard possible ?

Post by Mark » Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:09 am

Hi Jean-Marc,

I presume that creating a custom keyboard would be the best thing to do.

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Re: a control on the IOS keyboard possible ?

Post by jmburnod » Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:27 am

Hi Dixie,
using the iOS keyboard to move things around
Sorry, it seems i'm not clear. I need the opposite:

A control "MyCursor" move on a keyboard.

1. A (pending) loop change the direction of an arrow
2. A clic stop this loop and "MyCursor" move in the choosen way
3. A clic stop the move
4. A clic send a mouseup to the control under "MyCursor"
5. The control do his job
6. Go to the first loop (1)

It work well but i must do a custom keyboard because
The keyboard is overlaid on top of the card on IOS

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