Spell check + Auto Correction on Physical Keyboard?

Hey Cyril,
Would this be possible?

Hi
I must admit I don't know yet how to do this, but in theory it should be possible... let's see in the future

Awesome, look forward to it, glad I bought this app, from the first time I've used it to now it's been night and day.

I'd be a bit surprised of the API's give access to the actual keyboard that way. I would like to see it. It would also give this app something tangible to set it apart. Multitouch is something 99% of people just can't see so it's not enough.

Actually the API doesn't allow to access the hard keyboard, but it allows to detect that text was modified in the text input box, so it is possible

That's good news, but I understand it's not priority.

Erratum: the API allows to access the hard keyboard

So I did it... it's a new option in v1.2.0 ("Suggest on hard keys").
At the moment it's disabled by default, awaiting for your feedbacks !

I enabled the option, but still not seeing any suggestions. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, waiting for someone elses response to see if it's me or not.

Uff, it was too easy to be true :/

I can only test with the emulator, as I don't have a physical keyboard on my phone... and it works perfectly...
Is it the same in portrait mode ?
Do you at least see the suggestion strip or nothing ?
Did you try to kill the app after setting the option ?

Actually... someone else told me that auto-correction works, but the suggestion popup doesn't show up... is it so ? is it in landscape / portrait ?

I think I understand... when you use the physical keyboard, the soft keyboard disappear, right ?

Yeah when we open the keyboard the soft keyboard goes away. And we don't see correction bar, and when I have it enabled it doesn't correct things like I'm and sich. Y

Yes ok I see the problem... Working on a fix

Hi
it was not that easy actually! but now it works at least with the emulator, so I hope it works on the real Droid as well

It is confirmed to be working very well on the Droid. I appreciate the quick implementation.

What about auto correcting though, like if I accidentally push an extra letter by accident or something?

But like I said, I appreciate it, and it works great right now.

Just an edit after using a little: wer doesn't change to we're , and when you try to backspace to correct a word it just undoes what you corrected making the word a big mess.

Cyril,

First of all I want to thank you for your hard work in creating this keyboard. And a BIG THANKS for adding the hardware keyboard support!!! The fact that you implemented it so quickly really impresses me (although, I know it wasn't easy).

I have to agree with what mazz0310 stated regarding the backspacing correction issue. Besides from a few minor things, the only other issue I have is the fact that the SHIFT and ALT keys don't work correctly for the hardware keyboard. (e.g., I try and type a capitol letter or a number and it just types the regular letter). Am I the only one having this problem???

All in all I'm very happy that at least somebody took the initiative to implement a "smarter" keyboard than the rest... I look forward to future updates whenever they come around.

Hi
I fixed the shift and alt issue (hopefully). However I didn't manage to handle correctly the cursor when alt key is pressed.. I don't think it's a big deal, but anyway I give up..

cyril wrote:Hi
I fixed the shift and alt issue (hopefully). However I didn't manage to handle correctly the cursor when alt key is pressed.. I don't think it's a big deal, but anyway I give up..

Yep, both keys work perfectly now Thanks!!

I love the ability to turn the correction on/off. Because normally when I open up the physical keyboard, I want the text to appear as I type.