Thanks for your reply. Not sure though what you mean with compatibility reasons - in fact all phones handle it differently anyways? Why wouldn't it be wise to allow developers to disable it? I didn't fully get the idea.
About disabling such functions: there are situations where it makes sense to disable it. In my case I bundle an app with a device that I'm giving to the users. So only my app runs on the device anyway, it starts at boot-time, and I'm in control of the devices (just renting it out to users); still I don't want to root it or modify the core in any way due to guarantee reasons. In my case, I've put specific features on the menu button and the other soft buttons, but I don't want the default behaviour to appear on long press; I'd like to override it with the same app-specific behaviour that I use for a short press on this button (which I can capture via onKeyUp for example). Actually I would like to get the behaviour as it is on my G1 (1.6): which is that long press is the same as short press. There's no difference between long press and short press. Not sure if it's due to 1.6 version on it, but I think so. But on my Nexus One (2.2) it's different (showing the soft keyboard) and on the Samsung Galaxy S (2.1) as well. Doesn't make much sense to me to have a search widget hidden behind the menu button on long press. I understand that the home button shouldn't be able to be overriden in order not to trap users in your app; but why shouldn't the developer be able to handle the menu button/long press? On Jul 27, 10:34 pm, Joseph Earl <joseph.w.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think you can. > Pressing and holding the menu button to show the soft keyboard exists > for compatibility reasons - I'm not sure it would be wise to allow > developers to disable it. > > On Jul 27, 12:18 pm, Mathias Lin <m...@mathiaslin.com> wrote: > > > > > How can I capture a long press of the device menu button in my application? > > I thought of an intent filter, but there's only an action called > > android.intent.action.SEARCH_LONG_PRESS, but nothing for the MENU button. > > > I found that long press of the menu button actually does different > > things on different devices, i.e. on Nexus One it will show the soft > > keyboard, while on Samsung Galaxy S it will pop up the search widget. > > Generally, I want to suppress this behaviour in my app. > > > (I already looked on StackOverflow.com for some hints but only found > > unanswered posts.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
