On Screen Keyboard about boxeeremote HOT 7 OPEN

Try to press and hold the menu button.  It works on the hero and Galaxy 
according to
this link at the bottom.

http://code.google.com/p/boxeeremote/wiki/UsingBoxeeRemote

Yes, please add the on screen keyboard functionality!

I have a proof of concept for this running on my phone. I'll post a patch once 
it's gone 
through some initial testing.

Here's a patch that addresses this issue. The keyboard seems to work and sends 
all
its commands to Boxee.

I think it's worth discussing the UI here. Does it make sense to start the 
keyboard
using a Menu item (as I did here) vs with some other button, perhaps on the main
screen. I'd like to hear some opinions on this.


Apply the patch to the trunk (R68) like this:

svn checkout https://boxeeremote.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ workingcopy
cd workingcopy/
patch -p0 -i path/to/patch.diff


If someone wants an .apk package I can generate one if requested.

Thanks Mark, it runs nicely on my HTC Magic running Android 2.2.1 (... and 
thanks to Mark Chatham for the app :) )

... and meant to add that I think providing access to the keyboard via a menu 
item is fine - I think that's probably the best way to do it.