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Old 11-25-2009, 07:39 PM   #1
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Some doubts: showing keyboard and ContentLister

Hi,

some questions for the ones who have dived into iLiad sources:

- how to make keyboard show/hide from a program?
Found [1], but I can't see anything useful from there, only:
Code:
 toolbar_setIconState(iconID_keyboard, iconState_selected);
and from there an IPC send... but what's on the other end listening and launching matchbox-keyboard?

[1] http://iliad.hpelbers.org/irexdox/co...2bc0cd0ff67e31


- executing ipdf from ContentLister vs. from CLI
If I run ipdf file.pdf from a ssh shell, up button don't quit the program. Same happens for FBReader.
Could you point me to the part of the sources where ContentLister changes this behaviour?

It looks like pm_TerminateUserApp() in programManager.c kills the viewer [1]

UPDATE: ContentLister gets the "quit" key and then kills the app with kill(pid).
To emulate what ContentLister does when running a new program [2] we should execute pm_RunViewer or store uaID (viewer id) by ourselves (g_uaOnTop and g_lastStartedUa stacks).

pm_SendKey function is quite interesting too [3].

[1] http://iliad.hpelbers.org/irexdox/co...17410649ff165a
[2] http://iliad.hpelbers.org/irexdox/co...04c2f19d198317
[3] http://iliad.hpelbers.org/irexdox/co...2bc0cd0ff67e31


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Old 11-26-2009, 08:15 PM   #2
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Attached you can find a simple lua demo of a matchbox-keyboard embeded into a gtk program, and whose keystrokes are forwarded to a gtk.TextView widget.
It's a mere translation of the C example included with matchbox-keyboard v0.1 sources.

It works on my desktop, but sadly enough, the matchbox-keyboard included in my Iliad doesn't accept the "-xid" argument, and looking at the sources it has no support to be embedded.

So I'm coming back to the first question, how does Iliad manage to open the keyboard and handle the keystrokes?
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Old 11-27-2009, 04:28 AM   #3
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from what I recall, you need to include the iliad eripc headers, create the ipc channel, then use that channel to show/hide the keyboard. This is C code, could probably work similarly in C++

Code:
// include eripc
#include <liberipc/eripc.h>
#include <liberipc/eripcviewer.h>
#include <liberipc/eripctoolbar.h>

// ipc channel variable
erClientChannel_t ertoolbarChannel;

// ipc channel creation
erIpcStartClient(ER_TOOLBAR_CHANNEL, &ertoolbarChannel);

// get the toolbar channel set up as for the PDF viewer application
tbSelectIconSet(ertoolbarChannel, ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID);
tbClearIconSet(ertoolbarChannel, ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID);

// enable on screen keyboard
tbAppendPlatformIcon(ertoolbarChannel,ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID,iconID_keyboard,-1);

// turn off trashcan as an extra.
tbAppendPlatformIcon(ertoolbarChannel,ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID,iconID_trashcan,-1);
tbSetStatePlatformIcon(ertoolbarChannel,ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID,iconID_trashcan, iconState_grey);
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Old 11-27-2009, 05:21 AM   #4
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from what I recall, you need to include the iliad eripc headers, create the ipc channel, then use that channel to show/hide the keyboard. This is C code, could probably work similarly in C++

Code:
// include eripc
#include <liberipc/eripc.h>
#include <liberipc/eripcviewer.h>
#include <liberipc/eripctoolbar.h>

// ipc channel variable
erClientChannel_t ertoolbarChannel;

// ipc channel creation
erIpcStartClient(ER_TOOLBAR_CHANNEL, &ertoolbarChannel);

// get the toolbar channel set up as for the PDF viewer application
tbSelectIconSet(ertoolbarChannel, ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID);
tbClearIconSet(ertoolbarChannel, ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID);

// enable on screen keyboard
tbAppendPlatformIcon(ertoolbarChannel,ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID,iconID_keyboard,-1);

// turn off trashcan as an extra.
tbAppendPlatformIcon(ertoolbarChannel,ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID,iconID_trashcan,-1);
tbSetStatePlatformIcon(ertoolbarChannel,ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID,iconID_trashcan, iconState_grey);
Hope that helps a bit
Hello pwarren,

first thanks for your comments.

I understand that this is the way to send the action "show the keyboard" but I guess it should be the other side of the channel, the code which performs the launch of the keyboard. I'm interested in that other end of the channel.
Who is listening on that other side? which daemon or process?

Or am I missing anything?
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Old 11-27-2009, 06:09 AM   #5
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Oh, I see, you're after the process that's listening for those IPC calls, and then launches the matchbox keyboard software? I'm clueless about that end of things
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Old 11-28-2009, 12:09 PM   #6
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- executing ipdf from ContentLister vs. from CLI
If I run ipdf file.pdf from a ssh shell, up button don't quit the program. Same happens for FBReader.
Could you point me to the part of the sources where ContentLister changes this behaviour?
As to the different behavior between ipdf and FBReader when calling from shell, I have one point to share (maybe you already know it):
Look at "registry.xml", you will find that FBReader is using channel 14 (for shell script) and ipdf is using channel 2. When you execute ipdf from shell, ipdf will use channel 2 but CLI will wait on channel 14 (maybe vice versa). That's why UP button won't be functional in this case.
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Old 11-29-2009, 06:24 PM   #7
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As to the different behavior between ipdf and FBReader when calling from shell, I have one point to share (maybe you already know it):
Look at "registry.xml", you will find that FBReader is using channel 14 (for shell script) and ipdf is using channel 2.
Very interesting, haven't noticed it.

Quote:
When you execute ipdf from shell, ipdf will use channel 2 but CLI will wait on channel 14 (maybe vice versa). That's why UP button won't be functional in this case.
hmmm...
Neither ipdf or FBreader listen to UP key when running from the CLI, so it must depends on how the apps are started.
Anyway, first question remains... who is listening on the other side of the IPC mechanism? how keyboard is shown?
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In the ipdf app. the events in the toolbar buttons are send to the ipcCbk function. You set the call back function with:

Code:
       erIpcChannel = channel;           
       int fd = erIpcGetServerFd(channel); 
         
       gdk_input_add (fd, 
                              GDK_INPUT_READ, 
                              (GdkInputFunction) ipcCbk, 
                              (gpointer) this);
when you set a icon the last parameter is a code send to de ipcCbk when you click on the icon. then you can set a icon like:

Code:
tbAppendPlatformIcon(  ertoolbarChannel, ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID, iconID_pan, ccVwrToolbar);
and in the ipcCbk do:

Code:
void IliadToolbar::ipcCbk(gpointer client_data, gint *fd, GdkInputCondition id) 
{ 
         
         IliadToolbar *toolBar = (IliadToolbar *) client_data; 
         char szBuffer[IPC_BUF_MAX]; 
         int nBuf = IPC_BUF_MAX; 
         erIpcCmd_t command; 
         erServerChannel_t channel = toolBar->erIpcChannel; 
         erIpcGetMessage(channel, szBuffer, &nBuf); 
         if (vwrParseCommand(szBuffer, &command) >= 0) 
         { 
                 switch (command.cc) 
                 { 
                         case ccVwrToolbar:
In when ccVwrToolbar is recibed ipdf check the icon name to decide the action to take.

As how you show/hide the keyboar you can see the settings app code in:

http://iliad.hpelbers.org/irexdox/se...735f93a6ced14a

the method show_keyboard.
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Neither ipdf or FBreader listen to UP key when running from the CLI, so it must depends on how the apps are started.
IIRC, the UP key is defined as GDK_F5. That mean, CLI will send a GDK_F5 button event to some applicatoin when the key is pushed. To make FBReader react to the key, you have to modify "keymap.xml". I assign GDK_F5 to "QUIT", so that FBReader will quit when I push the UP key. This step is to be done manually by each user. Normally, ipdf should react to the UP key when starting from CLI. Your description is quite strange. I suppose the UP key is on the top-left corner of iLiad, not the up-arrow key.

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Hello Max,

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In the ipdf app. the events in the toolbar buttons are send to the ipcCbk function. You set the call back function with:

Code:
       erIpcChannel = channel;           
       int fd = erIpcGetServerFd(channel); 
         
       gdk_input_add (fd, 
                              GDK_INPUT_READ, 
                              (GdkInputFunction) ipcCbk, 
                              (gpointer) this);
when you set a icon the last parameter is a code send to de ipcCbk when you click on the icon. then you can set a icon like:

Code:
tbAppendPlatformIcon(  ertoolbarChannel, ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID, iconID_pan, ccVwrToolbar);
and in the ipcCbk do:

Code:
void IliadToolbar::ipcCbk(gpointer client_data, gint *fd, GdkInputCondition id) 
{ 
         
         IliadToolbar *toolBar = (IliadToolbar *) client_data; 
         char szBuffer[IPC_BUF_MAX]; 
         int nBuf = IPC_BUF_MAX; 
         erIpcCmd_t command; 
         erServerChannel_t channel = toolBar->erIpcChannel; 
         erIpcGetMessage(channel, szBuffer, &nBuf); 
         if (vwrParseCommand(szBuffer, &command) >= 0) 
         { 
                 switch (command.cc) 
                 { 
                         case ccVwrToolbar:
In when ccVwrToolbar is recibed ipdf check the icon name to decide the action to take.

As how you show/hide the keyboar you can see the settings app code in:

http://iliad.hpelbers.org/irexdox/se...735f93a6ced14a

the method show_keyboard.
scotty1024 mrxvt code [1] proposed the same code, a program can use:
Code:
// Enable then pop up keyboard
tbAppendPlatformIcon(  ertoolbarChannel, ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID, iconID_keyboard, -1);
tbSetStatePlatformIcon(ertoolbarChannel, ER_PDF_VIEWER_UA_ID, iconID_keyboard, iconState_selected);
to show the keyboard, but studying those functions, we can see that tbSetStatePlatformIcon calls erIpcStartClient function (in eripc.c), which opens a socket to send the message/action.
Who is listening on the other part of the socket?

For instance, we can turn off the led from a program with (also from [1]):
Code:
// Turn off busy LED if we were invoked via [SHELL]
erIpcStartClient(ER_BUSYD_CHANNEL, &erbusyChannel);
busySetBusy(erbusyChannel, ccBusyState_Off);
which sends an IPC command through a socket. The daemon listening this socket and who in fact turn off the led is erbusyd, using an ioctl call (look at erbusyd.c).


UPDATE: ok, mistery solved: looks like it must be mb-applet-icon-container.c (lines 303 and 1479). Matchbox handles it.

It's very easy to make this work, to show the keyboard from inside an application and make the keystrokes to be redirected to our widgets.
You can see a proof of concept attached.
To run it:
$ lua test_kbd.lua | /path/to/xx -p


Thanks for all the ideas and enjoy the simplicity ;-)
Iņigo

PS: btw Hansel, I think you could substitute your custom keyboard in Minipad with something like this.

[1] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...63&postcount=4
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IIRC, the UP key is defined as GDK_F5. That mean, CLI will send a GDK_F5 button event to some applicatoin when the key is pushed. To make FBReader react to the key, you have to modify "keymap.xml". I assign GDK_F5 to "QUIT", so that FBReader will quit when I push the UP key. This step is to be done manually by each user. Normally, ipdf should react to the UP key when starting from CLI. Your description is quite strange. I suppose the UP key is on the top-left corner of iLiad, not the up-arrow key.
I'm exhausted now after all the thinking regarding keyboard... I'll take a look at this tomorrow.
(and yes, I referred to top-left corner UP/quit button).

Thanks, Iņigo
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