Does somebody know how open the "windows 8 touch keyboard" from an SWT application?
I want to open the "touch keyboard" when the SWT input get focus, like other native applications do.
Perhaps there is a particular "style" to use, when instantiating the Text class?
Something like:
text = new Text(shell, SWT.OPEN_TOUCH_KEYBOARD);
You can open the on screen keyboard by calling
Program.launch("osk.exe");
when the Text gains focus.
That'll make your application very platform (and even version) specific, so make sure that you're running an OS that has the on screen keyboard available.
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On OSX my Java application has a dock menu (using Apples extension to Java com.apple.eawt.Application.getApplication().setDockMenu) , allowing tasks to be started by right clicking on the dock icon, also files can be dropped onto the dock icon (Using Apples com.apple.eawt.OpenFilesHandler) and my application starts processing the dropped files.
I'm trying to replicate this functionality if sensible on Windows, if this behaviour on Windows is weird I don't want to do it. I cannot find a way to add tasks to to the popup menu for the application icon on the taskbar (my application is has an .exe wrapper provided by winrun4j), is that possible ?
But I have used java.awt.SystemTray to add a right click menu to that, and it works but I'm unclear in Windows when one would use the taskbar icon and when the SystemTray. What I cannot do is have the SystemTray respond to files being dropped onto it, and according to this Oracle Java issue it will never happen http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7119272. What I'm unclear about is if the Windows System tray is never meant to respond to things being dropped on it, or if this is just missing functionality in the Java implementation.
And is there way to drag files onto the taskbar icon instead, or is this whole notion of dragging files onto minimized icons purely an OSX thing and not relevent to Windows ?
To answer my own question files cannot be dropped directly onto pinned taskbar icon or the toolbar icon, but if you drag files onto the taskbar icon it should cause the main window to be displayed and then the files can be dropped onto the window instead, and this behaviour happens automtically with no coding required on my part.
I'm using a robot to click on a certain point on the screen. I just need a way for the robot to bring the desired window to focus. Now here's where the real problem lies, the window is a Java window, but not one I made. I used a VBscript to focus on Firefox earlier, but I'm not sure what to do. When I mouse over the icon on my toolbar, it says the windows name is "BitMinter Client v1.4.2" but in Task Manager it calls the process "Java(TM) Platform SE binary (32 bit)?
How do I focus in on the window?
Having the robot input ALT+TAB won't work because the window isn't second on my ALT+TAB list.
AppActivate looks for matching Window's titles.
Use spy++ (Windows SDK and most MS development tools) to get the window title.
You mention firefox so I don't know what type of Window you are referring to. In IE most web page elements (and for that matter very many other Window's things) haven't been Windows for decades. I don't know how firefox or java are implemented.
Windows basic architecture is windows (such as edit controls/buttons) inside other windows (a pane) inside a top level window (ie notepad) inside the desktop window.
To take notepad. There is a main window, menu bar, statusbar window, edit control window. Each of them has a title and class. This is notepad's title and class.
Untitled - Notepad Notepad
«No Window Text 0» Edit
«No Window Text 0» msctls_statusbar32
I'm trying to make a SWT-app that I'm building to minimize itself to it's tray-icon (i.e. a TrayItem in SWT). More specifically I want to achieve the following:
Both pressing close and minimize will minimize the app.
The app is not shown in the task-bar while it's minimized.
You can intercept window events in SWT quite easily.
Hiding apps from taskbar is something I haven't tried and I'd assume it requires calling some native function. I've found an example with taskbar which may be a starting point here .
I'm trying to find a concrete yes for some assumptions I have about developing a Java Swing app to be run on a Windows tablet device (I believe it'll be running Windows XP). We have a demo we are writing and we're leveraging previous experience with Java Swing to write the UI and I just want to make sure that touch events in Windows are treated like mouse clicks, is this true? Does anyone have any direct experience writing Swing apps for Windows tablets? The target device is http://www.amazon.com/Promotion-X70EX-3GP-Accessory-Standard/dp/B002MZZX76.
Also, wondering if the soft keyboard will automatically be activated when focus is given to a JTextField and other Swing data entry fields.
Thanks!
We developed an application in Swing which runs well on Windows XP tablets. Yes, touches are treated just like mouse clicks. However, I can only confirm this for basic touch events, e.g. clicking on a button. I can neither confirm nor deny whether they work for more complex gestures.
As for the soft keyboard, I cannot remember whether this works or not. In the end our users ended up using the tablet just like a regular laptop, i.e. with the keyboard not the touch screen. This is mostly due to the amount of text they need to enter in the application.
I'm developing a desktop application using Java. I want to put an icon (with a contextual menu) on the system tray (called Menu Extras in Mac Os). Java 6 comes with support for doing this in Windows and Linux, but it doesn't work in Mac Os.
I have seen some applications doing what I want in all three operating systems (e.g. DropBox), but I don't know if they are made with Java.
How can I achieve this?
If it's not possible in Java, is there any other cross-platform language able to do that?
Thanks.
AWT / Swing
According to documentation, OSX 10.5 update 1 and newer support TrayIcons
TrayIcons are represented on Mac OS X
using NSStatusMenus that are presented
to the left of the standard system
menu extras. The java.awt.Image
artwork for a TrayIcon is presented in
grayscale as per the Mac OS X standard
for menu extras.
TrayIcon.displayMessage() presents a
small non-modal dialog positioned
under the TrayIcon. The ActionListener
for the TrayIcon is only fired if the
"OK" button on the non-modal dialog is
pressed, and not if the window is
closed using the window close button.
Multiple calls to
TrayIcon.displayMessage() will dismiss
prior messages and leave only the last
message. If the application is not in
the foreground when
TrayIcon.displayMessage() is called,
the application bounces its icon in
the Dock. Message windows are badged
with the application's icon to
identify the which application
triggered the notification.
noah provided this sample:
java.awt.SystemTray.getSystemTray().add(new java.awt.TrayIcon(java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("foo.png")));
Note that you'll probably want to attach a menu to that icon before adding it to the tray, though.
SWT
According to documentation, SWT 3.3 and newer supports TrayItem icons on OSX.
Icons placed on the system tray will now appear when running on OS X in the status bar.
This snippet shows how to create a menu and icon and put them in the Tray.
I ported a Windows application to my Mac with little difficulty. One thing I noticed is that the icons are in full, living color (not following the Mac convention). I'll need to add a little OS-specific code to convert myself. But this is a big step up from the DLL dependent Desktop integration version from earlier iterations of Java.