Sun Microsystems Computer Accessories Device Buttons, Keyboard Handler, Defining a Device Button

Device Buttons

This section describes how to define a button on an emulated device and also describes the assignments associated with the buttons including:

■Assigning a keyboard key press to a button press

■Assigning a game key to a button press

■Specifying the character generated by a button press

■Assigning an abstract command to a button press

Keyboard Handler

The set of names available for device buttons depends on the keyboard handler being used.

There are two built-in keyboard handlers in the Toolkit:

■ITU-T telephone keypad handler (the class DefaultKeyboardHandler)

■A QWERTY keypad handler (the class QwertyKeyboardHandler)

You specify the keyboard handler by the keyboard.handler property, which gives the name of the class to be used.

For example:

keyboard.handler = com.sun.kvem.midp.DefaultKeyboardHandler

Defining a Device Button

A button on the emulated device is defined in the main device property file by name and screen location in one of the following forms:

button.<button_name> = x, y, width, height

button.<button_name> = x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3,...

For the first form (rectangular), the parameters are as follows:

■button_name: The set of button names available is determined by the keyboard handler in use, as shown in TABLE 2.

TABLE 2	Button Names Available
Keyboard Handler		Button Names
com.sun.kvem.midp.DefaultKeyboardHandler		0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, POUND,
		ASTERISK, POWER, SEND, END,

LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN,

SELECT, SOFT1, SOFT2, SOFT3,

SOFT4, CLEAR, USER1 through

USER10

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