[giaperrucci]

Dear all,
I am trying to bind the left soft key using Pys60 1.9.6.
Here the code:

import appuifw, key_codes

c=appuifw.Canvas()
appuifw.app.body=c

def onLEFT():
    print "Left Soft Key pressed"
    
c.bind(key_codes.EKeyLeftSoftkey, onLEFT)

When I press the key nothing happens.
Any idea?

Thanks for help!

[gaba88]

Originally Posted by giaperrucci

Dear all,
I am trying to bind the left soft key using Pys60 1.9.6.
Here the code:

import appuifw, key_codes

c=appuifw.Canvas()
appuifw.app.body=c

def onLEFT():
    print "Left Soft Key pressed"
    
c.bind(key_codes.EKeyLeftSoftkey, onLEFT)

When I press the key nothing happens.
Any idea?

Thanks for help!

hello giaperucci

i guess you are not creating a lock in your program which will have sufficient time to display your binding. You can have a look at this wiki article for more details.

Cheers,
Gaba88

[giaperrucci]

Thank you for the answer Gaba.
I tried it out with BT console and the lock is not necessary.
Anyhow, I tried the code in the article you pointed me at (just binding the left soft key instead), but it doesn't react as well.
I am using an N95 8 gb.

[gaba88]

Originally Posted by giaperrucci

Thank you for the answer Gaba.
I tried it out with BT console and the lock is not necessary.
Anyhow, I tried the code in the article you pointed me at (just binding the left soft key instead), but it doesn't react as well.
I am using an N95 8 gb.

hello giaperucci

thats strange, tell me what errors you get?? and i hope you have code for the Leftsoftkey, please refer the API documentation of all codes.

Regards

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Originally Posted by gaba88

thats strange, tell me what errors you get??

It's all in the first post

Originally Posted by giaperrucci

When I press the key nothing happens.

[gaba88]

thanks bogdan for pointing towards that.

Maybe the problem with capabilities I guess using keys require a special Caps.

@giaperucci which scriptshell you are using in PyS60 1.9.6.

[bogdan.galiceanu]

giaperrucci, excuse me for asking a silly question, but as the body of the application is a canvas it's normal for it not to show anything if you use the print statement. Did you exit the console in order to see the output?

[nirpsis]

Originally Posted by giaperrucci

Dear all,
I am trying to bind the left soft key using Pys60 1.9.6.
Here the code:

import appuifw, key_codes

c=appuifw.Canvas()
appuifw.app.body=c
def onLEFT():
    print "Left Soft Key pressed"
    
c.bind(key_codes.EKeyLeftSoftkey, onLEFT)

When I press the key nothing happens.
Any idea?

Thanks for help!

This is a bug! It doesn't work in the emulator as well. Tried on 1.4.5 and 1.9.6 both.

Could someone register as a bug? Any official word from the team- Mahesh or Ashwin?

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Originally Posted by nirpsis

This is a bug! It doesn't work in the emulator as well. Tried on 1.4.5 and 1.9.6 both.

Could someone register as a bug? Any official word from the team- Mahesh or Ashwin?

If you really believe it's a bug, you can file a report here. But let's wait for some more opinions. I don't think it's a bug since it works normally on my N97.

And like I said in my previous post, the print statement won't display anything on a Canvas

[ashwinurao]

Originally Posted by nirpsis

This is a bug! It doesn't work in the emulator as well. Tried on 1.4.5 and 1.9.6 both.

Could someone register as a bug? Any official word from the team- Mahesh or Ashwin?

Try using appuifw.note instead of print in the callback.

[nirpsis]

Originally Posted by bogdan.galiceanu

If you really believe it's a bug, you can file a report here. But let's wait for some more opinions. I don't think it's a bug since it works normally on my N97.

And like I said in my previous post, the print statement won't display anything on a Canvas

Thanks for the tip, Bogdan

Does this code work for you? I had tried that on the emulator.

# import modules
import appuifw, e32, key_codes 
# define functions to show notifications
def up():
    appuifw.note(u"Arrow up was pressed")
    
def two():
    appuifw.note(u"Key 2 was pressed")   
 
def quit():
    app_lock.signal()
# Create Canvas object
canvas = appuifw.Canvas()
appuifw.app.body = canvas
# Bind keys
canvas.bind(key_codes.EKeyLeftSoftkey, up)
canvas.bind(key_codes.EKey2, two)
# Exit handling
appuifw.app.exit_key_handler = quit
app_lock = e32.Ao_lock()
app_lock.wait()

Originally Posted by ashwinurao

Try using appuifw.note instead of print in the callback.

Thanks Ashwin, I had just done that earlier as well. Didn't use canvas earlier, used note

The only thing is I tried it on the emulator S60 3rd Edition FP2. If it doesn't work on it, it is a BUG! Will report it if no solution is presented

[bogdan.galiceanu]

The code you posted works on my E90 when pressing the 2 key, but not when pressing the left softkey. I assume this is because the E90, being a querty device, needs to have a different keycode specified. Anyway, when I changed it to EKeyUpArrow it worked. So yes, it's safe to say this isn't a bug on real phones. Don't know about emulators though, I can't test it on one at the moment.

[ashwinurao]

Please note this statement in the documentation : "There is no way to prevent the standard action of the Hang-up key, the Menu key, the Power key or the Voice tags key from taking place". So you cannot bind these keys at all.

[nirpsis]

Ashwin, That doesn't include the Left soft key? Does it?

Bogdan, I tested it on N95 too. It doesn't work as well. The key 2 works.

Still wondering if it is supposed to work or not

[gaba88]

Originally Posted by nirpsis

Ashwin, That doesn't include the Left soft key? Does it?

Bogdan, I tested it on N95 too. It doesn't work as well. The key 2 works.

Still wondering if it is supposed to work or not

hello nirpsis

i also checked the script in my N96 the key2 worked very fine me for me, but the leftsoftkey is not working here two.

Have you checked this in the S60 3rdFP2 emulator?? At present i am not in a situation to check that in emulator.

Regards
Gargi