[Automotive] Qt Virtual Keyboard

[Alistair Adams]

If I understand the problem correctly, and there’s always a possibility I haven’t, I can say that our friends at Pelagicore have submitted a patch for this https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/174616/ and it will be part of Qt 5.9.

-Alistair

From: Automotive [mailto:automotive-bounces+alistair.adams=qt.io at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Jereme Lamothe
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 1:31 PM
To: Bontrager, Matt <pbontrag at jaguarlandrover.com>; automotive at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Automotive] Qt Virtual Keyboard

Hi Matt. We ran into this same problem at DocBox, there does not appear to be a public API for custom keyboard layouts / styles. When we contacted commercial support about wanting this feature, we were told the development team "didn't see the value in it". This was over a year ago, and I haven't checked in since. It's probably time to do that, I'll send a feature request later today.

In the meantime, we made changes to Qt 5.7 Virtual Keyboard's source to enable custom styling / layouts. The changes required to do so are very small (a mere 4 lines!), but would need additional thought and work to warrant submitting to the Qt project. Our custom virtual keyboard layouts / styles (*.qml) are included as resources in a common library used by our apps. We modify VirtualKeyboardStyles::styleImportPath() to search for styles at a known qrc:// URL. To load custom layouts, we point FolderListModel's "folder" property in Keyboard.qml to also point to a known qrc:// URL. I hope this helps!

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 6:30 PM Bontrager, Matt <pbontrag at jaguarlandrover.com<mailto:pbontrag at jaguarlandrover.com>> wrote:
Hello automotive group. I have a question related to customizing the Qt Virtual Keyboard.

Is there a way to customize the layout and style of the Qt Virtual Keyboard directly in the QML of a project (with the import QtQuick.VirtualKeyboard 2.1 , etc, in the document head)?

After researching all of the documentation I could find, the only way I see to:

  *   customize the layout is to make changes directly in the source code of the plugin (layouts/en_GB/main.qml, etc)
  *   customize the style is to create a custom directory in the VirtualKeyboard/Styles directory and point the project to the custom style

Thanks in advance for any direction/guidance.

Best,
Matt Bontrager
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