Problem with text mode input on mobile devices

[Remco Klappe || Tetra <re...@tetra.nl>]

Hi everyone,

I've already created an issue on Jira about this (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-71), but i was wondering if there are more people with the same problem, and if someone has a workaround for this issue.

I recorded my iPhone to show the problem with the keyboard:

http://www.tellmehow.nl/videos/

As you can see i'm not able to dismiss the keyboard. This can only be achieved by selecting the 'None input-mode'.

Thanks in advance!
Remco

Re: Problem with text mode input on mobile devices

[Andy Muchmore <an...@gmail.com>]

thanks - I get it

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Mike Jumper <mi...@guac-dev.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Andy Muchmore <an...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have the opposite problem - when a text box opens up in our Java
> Applet on
> > the server side it fails to bring up the text keyboard for either the
> iPhone
> > or the iPad - the cursor is in the text box but no virtual keyboard -
> works
> > perfectly for devices with keyboards
> >
>
> The text input mode that Remco is referring to is the input method
> provided by the Guacamole web application itself:
>
> http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/doc/gug/using-
> guacamole.html#text-input
>
> That is the intended way for users of mobile devices (and users
> lacking physical keyboards in general) to enter text. The intent is
> that the user selects that input method, and their native on-screen
> keyboard opens up as a result, along with some handy buttons.
>
> Beyond that, it's not really possible for a remote desktop solution
> like Guacamole to know when your Java applet displays a text box (or
> that a text box is focused within the remote desktop and keyboard
> input is appropriate). As far as remote desktop is concerned,
> everything is purely graphical, and that text box is no more than an
> image of a text box. To the human sitting in the chair, it's not all
> that different, but from the perspective of the software, it would be
> like asking that the keyboard open whenever the image of a bird
> appears [1].
>
> - Mike
>
> [1] http://xkcd.com/1425/
>



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Re: Problem with text mode input on mobile devices

[Mike Jumper <mi...@guac-dev.org>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Andy Muchmore <an...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the opposite problem - when a text box opens up in our Java Applet on
> the server side it fails to bring up the text keyboard for either the iPhone
> or the iPad - the cursor is in the text box but no virtual keyboard - works
> perfectly for devices with keyboards
>

The text input mode that Remco is referring to is the input method
provided by the Guacamole web application itself:

http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/doc/gug/using-guacamole.html#text-input

That is the intended way for users of mobile devices (and users
lacking physical keyboards in general) to enter text. The intent is
that the user selects that input method, and their native on-screen
keyboard opens up as a result, along with some handy buttons.

Beyond that, it's not really possible for a remote desktop solution
like Guacamole to know when your Java applet displays a text box (or
that a text box is focused within the remote desktop and keyboard
input is appropriate). As far as remote desktop is concerned,
everything is purely graphical, and that text box is no more than an
image of a text box. To the human sitting in the chair, it's not all
that different, but from the perspective of the software, it would be
like asking that the keyboard open whenever the image of a bird
appears [1].

- Mike

[1] http://xkcd.com/1425/

Re: Problem with text mode input on mobile devices

[Andy Muchmore <an...@gmail.com>]

I have the opposite problem - when a text box opens up in our Java Applet
on the server side it fails to bring up the text keyboard for either the
iPhone or the iPad - the cursor is in the text box but no virtual keyboard
- works perfectly for devices with keyboards

Server - Linux
Browser - Chrome
Environment - Java Applet


On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Remco Klappe || Tetra <re...@tetra.nl>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've already created an issue on Jira about this (
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-71), but i was wondering
> if there are more people with the same problem, and if someone has a
> workaround for this issue.
>
> I recorded my iPhone to show the problem with the keyboard:
>
> http://www.tellmehow.nl/videos/
>
> As you can see i'm not able to dismiss the keyboard. This can only be
> achieved by selecting the 'None input-mode'.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Remco
>



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AVM@Codonix.com
301 461-2683