Spell check + Auto Correction on Physical Keyboard?

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Spell check + Auto Correction on Physical Keyboard?

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Hey Cyril,
Would this be possible?
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Re: Spell check + Auto Correction on Physical Keyboard?

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Hi
I must admit I don't know yet how to do this, but in theory it should be possible... let's see in the future ;)
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Awesome, look forward to it, glad I bought this app, from the first time I've used it to now it's been night and day.
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I'd be a bit surprised of the API's give access to the actual keyboard that way. I would like to see it. It would also give this app something tangible to set it apart. Multitouch is something 99% of people just can't see so it's not enough.
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Actually the API doesn't allow to access the hard keyboard, but it allows to detect that text was modified in the text input box, so it is possible
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That's good news, but I understand it's not priority.
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Erratum: the API allows to access the hard keyboard ;)

So I did it... it's a new option in v1.2.0 ("Suggest on hard keys").
At the moment it's disabled by default, awaiting for your feedbacks !
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Re: Spell check + Auto Correction on Physical Keyboard?

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I enabled the option, but still not seeing any suggestions. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, waiting for someone elses response to see if it's me or not.
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Uff, it was too easy to be true :/

I can only test with the emulator, as I don't have a physical keyboard on my phone... and it works perfectly...
Is it the same in portrait mode ?
Do you at least see the suggestion strip or nothing ?
Did you try to kill the app after setting the option ?
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Actually... someone else told me that auto-correction works, but the suggestion popup doesn't show up... is it so ? is it in landscape / portrait ?
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