Screen typing with touchscreen

[anonymous]

since i am using navit on a touchscreen (without a keyboard) and it says on the homepage "for touchscreen usage" i think it is time for an integrated option to type in navigation targets via the screen instead of the keyboard.

to shorten input time this could be done by in incremental search (while typing).

[KaZeR]

It's done this way in the internal gui and cegui. Only the gtk relies on an external (xkbd) keyboard emulation. Does it answer your question?

[anonymous]

so i have to start xkbd manually?

[KaZeR]

xkbd should be started automatically when you launch the destination menu in the gtk gui. Isn't it the case?

[anonymous]

well as no other menu than the dest menu opens up i guess it isnt :/

[KaZeR]

Do you have it installed? Can you launch it from a term?

[anonymous]

i dont think that there is an xkbd in ubuntu stables packet system. guess the command is hardcoded?

got an xvkbd though ..

[KaZeR]

indeed, it's hardcoded. If you want to try before : have a look in navit/gui/gtk/destination.c and look for gtk_socket_steal(GTK_SOCKET(keyboard), spawn_xkbd("xkbd","-geometry 200x100"));

If xvkbd fits your needs this way, we'll add a config option to xml.

[anonymous]

i tried with xvkbd but the spawn call seems to be blocking?! at least i was not able to enter any destinations before the screen keyboard window was closed.

[anonymous]

Can you try by adding a & at the xvkbd command?

[anonymous]

as far as i understand the code the screen keyboard process is already being forked

[KaZeR]

now there is an internal keyboard on internal gui, and you can disable it and use the system's virtual keyboard instead by adding 'keyboard=0' to you gui definition in navit.xml