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| author | Carl Byington <carl@five-ten-sg.com> |
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| date | Mon, 04 Aug 2014 08:10:12 -0700 |
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| 1 <h2>Virtual Keyboard</h2> | |
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| 3 <p>Since ConnectBot doesn't use any of the normal TextView | |
| 4 widgets, Android's IME structure isn't designed to directly | |
| 5 support it.</p> | |
| 6 <p>The best way to use Android with a virtual keyboard is in <strong>Portrait</strong> | |
| 7 mode. By default, ConnectBot is set to use <strong>Portrait</strong> | |
| 8 mode when no hardware keyboard is present. To change this setting, go to | |
| 9 <strong>Preferences</strong> from the <strong>Host List</strong>.</p> | |
| 10 <p>In <strong>Landscape</strong> mode, the Android virtual keyboard | |
| 11 (or other IMEs) will take up the entire screen. Android provides no way | |
| 12 for ConnectBot to resize the terminal view in <strong>Landscape</strong>. | |
| 13 However, you may use a <i>work-around</i>: <strong>Force Resize</strong> | |
| 14 to fit above the virtual keyboard if desired.</p> | |
| 15 <p>On devices without a hardware keyboard, you may press and hold | |
| 16 the <strong>MENU</strong> button to bring up the virtual keyboard. NOTE: | |
| 17 This applies to any program on the Android platform; it is not | |
| 18 ConnectBot specific.</p> | |
| 19 | |
| 20 <h2>How to Enter Control, Alt, Escape, and Function Keys</h2> | |
| 21 <p>You can enter any key combination with ConnectBot and the virtual | |
| 22 keyboard, but you must know how keys are mapped on a normal console. For | |
| 23 instance, usually combinations of ALT+letter on a PC keyboard are | |
| 24 actually mapped to sending, sequentially, ESC key then the letter.</p> | |
| 25 <p>Note there are also screen gestures: see the ScreenGestures help topic.</a> | |
| 26 for <strong>Page Up</strong> and <strong>Page Down</strong>.</p> | |
| 27 <ul> | |
| 28 <li>Trackball: 1 press is <strong>CTRL</strong>, 2 presses sends <strong>ESC</strong> | |
| 29 </li> | |
| 30 <li><strong>Tab key</strong> = <strong>CTRL + i</strong></li> | |
| 31 <li><strong>Function key</strong> = <strong>CTRL + number</strong> | |
| 32 </li> | |
| 33 </ul> | |
| 34 | |
| 35 <h2>On-Screen symbols</h2> | |
| 36 <p>By touching the bottom line of your screen a pop-up list of | |
| 37 on-screen symbols will appear:</p> | |
| 38 <ul> | |
| 39 <li><strong>Ctrl</strong> - presses the CTRL key. Tap-and-hold | |
| 40 opens a CTRL+? letter dialog window.</li> | |
| 41 <li><strong>Esc</strong> - presses the ESC key. Tap-and-hold | |
| 42 opens the Function Keys dialog window.</li> | |
| 43 <li><strong>Sym</strong> - opens the Character Picker window. | |
| 44 Tap-and-hold opens the arrow keys navigation window. | |
| 45 <li><strong>Empty</strong> - allows to insert a single line of text. | |
| 46 <li><strong>Keyboard</strong> - shows the virtual keyboard. | |
| 47 </ul> | |
| 48 | |
| 49 <h2>Examples</h2> | |
| 50 <ul> | |
| 51 <li><strong>ESC</strong> = Press the trackball twice.</li> | |
| 52 <li><strong>ALT + Right Arrow</strong> = Press trackball twice | |
| 53 then move trackball to right.</li> | |
| 54 <li><strong>CTRL + A</strong> = Press trackball once then tap the | |
| 55 "A" key on the soft keyboard.</li> | |
| 56 <li><strong>F3</strong> = Press trackball once then tap the | |
| 57 "3" key on the soft keyboard.</li> | |
| 58 </ul> |