I know there are a few threads about keyboards already but none have given a solution to keyboard with integrated mouse/ touchpad.
I bought the version of this that has the grid rather than offset keys. The keyboard is fine and connects easily however as others have reported, the 'mouse' works but there is no pointer onscreen, meaning you don't know where you're pointing it!
Is there a way to get a pointer onscreen without having a separate mouse?
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Hi,
I dont have bluetooth mouse here, so I cannot test mouse pointing in RDP (remote desktop) apps running on Dell Streak. I have read a topic on Engadget about paring keyboard & mouse device with Dell Streak, the mouse pointer & scrolling didnt work. However, my concern is in RDP apps.
Please anyone takes a test if you have both BT mouse & Dell Streak to see how they work together.
Thanks,
vcivilen said:
Hi,
I dont have bluetooth mouse here, so I cannot test mouse pointing in RDP (remote desktop) apps running on Dell Streak. I have read a topic on Engadget about paring keyboard & mouse device with Dell Streak, the mouse pointer & scrolling didnt work. However, my concern is in RDP apps.
Please anyone takes a test if you have both BT mouse & Dell Streak to see how they work together.
Thanks,
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I have MS brand and it works good with wyse remote with cursor showing on the screen. You will just have left click working. By holding left button,I can move screen to different section of larger pc screen.
A great news. right click can be emulated by autoHotKey.
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DJ Steve's ROM...
I recently (less than 24hrs) ago installed a cooked rom by DJ Steve - with this rom when I pair to my BT mouse I get a mouse cursor in the normal android OS. Scroll wheel acts like arrow keys, and clicking works. I was able to open the notifications pane by clicking and dragging.
I have not yet tried RDP. Maybe tonight.
kd5uzz said:
I recently (less than 24hrs) ago installed a cooked rom by DJ Steve - with this rom when I pair to my BT mouse I get a mouse cursor in the normal android OS. Scroll wheel acts like arrow keys, and clicking works. I was able to open the notifications pane by clicking and dragging.
I have not yet tried RDP. Maybe tonight.
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Great, please try with both left and right clicks. Which BT mouse u currently use?
Waiting for Jorno keyboard, then DS can replace my laptop lol.
vcivilen said:
Great, please try with both left and right clicks. Which BT mouse u currently use?
Waiting for Jorno keyboard, then DS can replace my laptop lol.
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same here, everything as posted by kd5uzz
working fine also in rdp and cloud
i used an old bt mouse (called NGS Snake) found in the rubbish box
I went out and grabbed a Microsoft Bluetooth Portable 6000 keyboard, which is fantastic, by the way. I purchased it with the sole purpose of using it with CM7 w/Bluetooth and aDOSBox. Yeah, I want to kick it old school.
First, when in landscape mode, it will not reorient the arrow keys. Up arrow is left, Left arrow is down and so forth. This is simply the keyboard not being remapped when orientation changes, however... I'm not seeing a simple way to compensate for this.
Any thoughts?
Also, I'm tempted to see what a Bluetooth mouse does on this. I'm finding that the keystroke standards in Android don't follow normal "Windows and clones" methodology. So, having to reach up and touch the screen displaces you enough to make it inconvenient to perform certain tasks.
Is there a proper mouse implementation either in Android or in the CM7 stack? If not, are they any APKs that would satisfy this?
I'm looking for a laptop replacement, if you get the gist of what I'm trying to do here. I want to be able to type a book on a Nook.
Ironic, eh?
I don't think android has the ability to change the key mappings based on orientation.. you might be able to write an app that would do this though. The easiest way to do this is to have to key maps and have your app switch between them when it detects and orientation change. That might not be very efficient but it would be fairly simple to write, I think.
As for the mouse, I can't comment on using it with the nook but I have used a bt mouse with other android devices and it works fine. It would just as you would expect.
I bought also a chinese flexible BT keyboard but has some lag sometimes.
Remapping of keys would interest me also.
There is a fix for the rotation problem. Also for getting the "<" and ">" buttons working. Search isn't working for me and i don't feel like manually combing the forums for it, but it's in a thread labelled "chisleu's mod" or something like that.
edit, found the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1008612
I'm going to try this out. This is likely exactly what I'm looking for. I don't expect to use the keyboard in portrait mode... I'll let everyone know how it works for me.
I will eventually be cool enough to write something like this myself, but until then... Script Kiddie, AWAY!
So I bought the HP Touchpad Wireless keyboard for my TP and love it. My only problem at this point is that some of the buttons don't work on Android. Obviously the Card button which was meant for WebOS does nothing here, and even though the Play/Pause button works, the skip track prev and next do not. I see that most of the keys are still sending inputs file the KeyEvent program, but are not mapped properly.
I tried changing one of the keyboard files (when googling this it was recommended I change qwerty.kl) to properly map to the input the keyboard was sending, but it didn't appear to have any effect. My suspicion is that perhaps the HP BT keyboard uses something like /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl instead of qwerty.kl, but how do I know for sure? There are like a dozen in there. Is there a way I can make a customized one and somehow tell CM9 to point to that layout file when the BT keyboard connects?
I know that this is an issue that has been mentioned a few times, but I've not been able to determine if there's a complete solution, so I though it warranted its own thread.
The problem is that when using the hardware keybaord the [Shift] key has to be physically depressed to get a capital letter when typing in a web browser. In other apps, you can press and release [shift], and then press the letter you want the capital of.
I've tried a number of browsers, including the stock one, Chrome, Opera and Dolphin, and they all suffer from the same issue.
HOWEVER, the choice of on-screen keyboard seems to have an influence. If you are using the SwiftKey keyboard, then the problem goes away completely, and the shift key works fine all the time (the problem is that SwiftKey really interferes with the hardware keyboard inserting extra spaces after commas, and popping up suggested words, etc). When using the AOSP keyboard I've seen it both work, and not work, so my assumption is that the problem is intermittent with that keyboard. Swype, and all the "null keyboards" I could find in the Play store all seem to suffer from the issue.
I'm pretty certain this problem arrived with the Jelly Bean update. Does anybody know of a solution other than installing SwiftKey and having to put up with it interfering with the hardware keyboard?
Firefox doesn't seem to suffer from this issue, so from that I am concluding that it's something to do with the type or class of text box used in most browsers (not Firefox), and that SwiftKey is handling them differently to the other keyboards I've tried.
So I've been experimenting with turning my Note 3 into a mobile media and gaming device. The media part works well (other than a few hiccups with my hdmi connector from time to time). However, I am running into issues playing games with my keyboard.
The specific app I am having issues with is QIII4A, with Open Arena. I can bind my movement keys in the game settings just fine, and my mouse works well. The problem is that my movement keys do not work, at all, when bound to WASD (technically their Dvorak equivalent, but I don't believe that's the issue). When bound to the arrow keys I can move just fine. Crouch and jump also work, Ctrl and space respectively.
I believe it's an issue with my input, possibly not repeatedly sending a key press like it would on a Computer. I use External Keyboard Helper Pro as my input method when I have a keyboard attached. I've played with the settings that seem relevant (pause before key repeating set to none, also tried do not repeat as a test).
Does anyone have any ideas as to how I could get this working? I could change my keyboard layout in EKH, but I'd rather avoid this if possible.
Additionally, is it possible to unbind or rebind mouse keys? Mouse 2 as back is rather annoying.
I'm running root stock mj5, if it matters.
Thanks!
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So I've done a bit more testing and it seems to be a problem with any games. Curious to know if there's a known workaround.
On further testing, I noticed that as I hold a movement key I do get some motion, just incredibly slow. Seems that it is sending a string of keypresses instead of one, long keypress. This is also why the jump and use keys work fine, as one short press is plenty. Crtl, alt, and the arrow keys or "gamepad up/down/left/right" as they're mapped work fine.
I did go ahead and create a new layout for gaming, so in the mean time that is probably a decent compromise. Just wish I could go all the way so I could type and game with the same layout. If anyone is interested I'd be happy to post a walkthrough on the key remapping process using external keyboard helper.