SoftKeyboard does not allow keyOutputText and keyIcon on same Key

I am trying to modify the SoftKeyboard example (Andriod 3.1 on Moto Xoom) so that I can use an icon on the key and have it output a unicode character when that key is pressed.

Specifically I am trying to have it output a beamed eighth note (musical symbol) which is unicode \u266B.

Unfortunately I cannot use keyOutputText and keyIcon on the same key in the symbols.xml file which lays out the keys.

I need keyIcon because I could not find a way to change the Typeface on the Keyboard Keys to one with that character. I found where I would do it, but its a call to a private method (.setTypeFace) buried in android.jar (KeyboardView if I recall) so I can't.

So I just use an icon to put on the key. This works fine in combination with android:codes, however android:codes will not output my unicode character when I feed it android:codes="\\u266B" which documentation says it should accept.

I need android:keyOutputText="\u266B" to get the character to actually output into my EditText. So I can make the key display an icon of my character and the EditText display the character itself, but not the two together.

When I try to use the 2 together it compiles and runs just fine, then I hit the shift button on the keyboard to display the symbols and only the numbers 0-9 show up, the rest of the keyboard is just gone. Now error messages or anything, just gone. Nowher开发者_JAVA技巧e does it say these two things are exclusive that I could find, nor does it make any logical sense for them to be.

If this is a bug, I just want to know so I can accept it and stop banging my head against it (a planned fix date would be nice too). If not, how can I get both the key on the keyboard and the EditText box to show my beamed eighth note. I am open to any suggestion or work arounds.

Thanks.

Use a HashMap to map the android:codes to your unicode character.

In XML :

<Key android:codes="719" android:keyIcon="@drawable/zo"/> //use your icon and required code here

In java code:

HashMap<String, String> keyCodeMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
keyCodeMap.put("719", ""+'\u0986');

Then, in the onKey(int primaryCode, int[] keyCodes) method get the corresponding character using using following code:

   String c = keyCodeMap.get(String.valueOf(primaryCode)); 

Use the value of c where you need.

Not sure if this is really going to help, since it's for AnySoftKeyboard, but the problem is the same, so maybe the solution is too?

What solved the problem (for me, creating a layout for ASK) was this:

supply both keyIcon and keyOutputText AS WELL as android:codes, but NO keyLabel! keyLabel gets filled (by ASK?) with the first letter of android:codes, but you still see the image and it outputs multi-letter text.

Hope it helps, might be worth a try in any case, I guess.

(Please note: I just found this out and although I could reproduce it, I can't guarantee if it really was this that solved the problem. I honestly think so, though.)

Instead of using \u266B in android:codes try the int value of the unicode: 0x266B.

Then from onKey you can convert it back to String using:

Character.toString((char)primaryCode)