CEikEdwin and OfferKeyEventL

[tomjanssens]

Hello,

I derived my own class from CEikEdwin and implemented my own OfferKeyEventL(). The reason why I did this is because some other actions need to be performed when a letter is typed in.

The implementation of the OfferKeyEventL() looks like this:

TKeyResponse CEditorView::OfferKeyEventL(const TKeyEvent& aKeyEvent,TEventCode aType)
{
if (aType==EEventKey)
{
// Do some extra stuff
}
}

The problem I have is that aType is never equal to EEventKey. So the extra code is never executed. The letters do appear in the CEikEdwin.

Greetings,
Tom

[symbianyucca]

why don't you just have the edwin in a container in your app and handle the keys in the container before you forward them to the edwin ?

yucca

[sopta007]

yeah exactly, I'm using something like this quite successfully:

TKeyResponse CMyContainer::OfferKeyEventL(const TKeyEvent& aKeyEvent, TEventCode aType)
{

switch ( aKeyEvent.iScanCode )
    {
    case EStdKeyUpArrow:
    //do some stuff
    break;
    default:
    break;
    }

return iEdwin->OfferKeyEventL(aKeyEvent, aType);
}

[priya.jawahar]

yeah exactly, I'm using something like this quite successfully:

TKeyResponse CMyContainer::OfferKeyEventL(const TKeyEvent& aKeyEvent, TEventCode aType)
{

switch ( aKeyEvent.iScanCode )
    {
    case EStdKeyUpArrow:
    //do some stuff
    break;
    default:
    break;
    }

return iEdwin->OfferKeyEventL(aKeyEvent, aType);
}

Hi,

Did you find any solution to this problem? Any pointers to this will be of great help since I am also facing the same problem.

Thanks
Priya

[symbianyucca]

did you also remember to add the container in to the control stack in the appui class ?

yucca