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*"As an aside: long press on MENU was only intended for backwards compatibility, and thus has some perhaps surprising behavior in how strongly the soft keyboard stays up when it is used. This is not intended to be a standard way to access the soft keyboards, and all apps written today should have a more standard and visible way to bring up the IME if they need it."* Thanks, Justin Anderson MagouyaWare Developer http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> wrote: > What proof do you have that this was intended for legacy devices? This > is a very useful functionality any time you want to filter a list -- there > is SDK support for this type of filtering which only works with the > keyboard. So unless I see something from Google that this was removed > intentionally for whatever reason, I don't believe this is a legacy device > only function. > > > On Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:11:27 AM UTC+8, MagouyaWare wrote: >> >> Ok, well... I am correct in that the behavior was intended for Legacy >> devices. And that it doesn't work on my device. I guess it is >> device/manufacturer-dependent then on when that functionality was removed. >> >> Thanks, >> Justin Anderson >> MagouyaWare Developer >> http://sites.google.com/site/**magouyaware<http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> You are incorrect. It works on a stock 2.3.6 Nexus One. >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:56:20 AM UTC+8, MagouyaWare wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm pretty sure that functionality was gone long before ICS... I have >>>> an LG G2x running Gingerbread and I just tested the long-press of the menu >>>> button... nothing happens. >>>> >>>> But I would expect that... That functionality was supported only for >>>> legacy purposes on older devices. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Justin Anderson >>>> MagouyaWare Developer >>>> http://sites.google.com/site/**m**agouyaware<http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> I know this is strictly not the right forum to ask this, but there are >>>>> a lot of smart people on here who probably have an answer.... >>>>> >>>>> Pre-ICS, you could long-press the Menu button on the phone to bring up >>>>> the soft keyboard. I used this behavior to allow filtering on list items >>>>> by the user typing in a search term. (I know, not the best UI design). >>>>> >>>>> But, on ICS, I cannot find a way to bring up the soft-keyboard if not >>>>> on a TextView. Is this functionality gone from ICS? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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@**googlegroup* >>>>> *s.com <[email protected]> >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> android-developers+**unsubscribe**@googlegroups.com<android-developers%[email protected]> >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/**group**/android-developers?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> 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 <[email protected]> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> android-developers+**[email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/**group/android-developers?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en> >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
