Two bugs when moving the cursor with the volume key

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thomas
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Joined: Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:08 am
Phone: Iconia A500 Android 3.1

Two bugs when moving the cursor with the volume key

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Hi,
I am a new user of your keyboard and of your forum.
On my Iconia A500, the volume key takes the orientation into account. When in landscape mode with the key at the top, pressing the left part decrease the volume. Still in landscape mode, with the key at the bottom, pressing the left part still decrease the volume. When I say left part, it is relative to me, phisically, it is now the other end of the key.
The key does not work this way when moving the cursor in Smart Keyboard. With the key at the top, pressing the left part of the key moves the cursor to the right, which is disturbing. With the key at the bottom, pressing left moves left, as expected.
The second bug is more difficult to reproduce, I noticed it when filling the "Confirm email field" of the forum registration form. I just entered my email for the first time in the field, cursor is at the end. I move the cursor, with the volume key, to somewhere in the middle. Then I press backspace and the last character is deleted ! The delete did not occur at the position of the cursor.
I can show them to you next week ;)

Thomas C.
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cyril
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Phone: Nexus One 2.3
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Re: Two bugs when moving the cursor with the volume key

Post by cyril »

Hi

As for the volume key, the problem is that the keyboard cannot guess on which side of the device it is located (today it assumes it's on the left side). This is specific to each device and I'm not sure there is a generic way to get this information.

I was not able to reproduce the second problem...
Cyril
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