[SGS II] Keybinding only work when followed by a left click

[OphyTe]

Hi,

I use this VNC server for a few days now and I found this anoying bug which force me to always make a left click after any key I press (page up for menu for instance) !

[hyhjcjy]

Me too!!

For the HTC Hero, things are all very well. But for the HTC sensation XE, the bug happened. They both open uinput at the path /dev/uinput. But with different reactions. Why?

[agronick]

Are the permissions set to read and write?

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:48 AM, hyhjcjy [email protected] wrote:

Me too!!

For the HTC Hero, things are all very well. But for the HTC sensation XE, the bug happened. They both open uinput at the path /dev/uinput. But with different reactions. Why?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/oNaiPs/droid-VNC-server/issues/42#issuecomment-17526070 .

[hyhjcjy]

How to check?

But I don't think it's the problem of permissions, it can send key, but binding with a left click...

[alvin777]

Reproduces on my HTC Desire C, OS: 4.0.3

[alvin777]

Calling suinput_write(inputfd, EV_SYN, SYN_REPORT, 0); after ret=suinput_press(inputfd,code); and ret=suinput_release(inputfd,code); fixes the issue for me

[hyhjcjy]

Thanks so much to alvin777 !!! You really fix the problem!!!! :+1:

HTC Sensetion XE, OS:4.0.3

[hyhjcjy]

BTW, do you have the following situation?

For my HTC Sens, the touch screen control: there's a "spot" to be drag to the right place if I want to do click. But for my HTC Hero, it is "touch-and-play".

Why they are different??

(Hope you can understand my question, sorry for poor English.)

[alvin777]

The build I installed from Google Play was "touch and play", but the one I built myself has that spot. I'm going to investigate that next weekend.

[hyhjcjy]

I see, thank you for your kindly reply :)

[alvin777]

Ok, this one was tougher. According to http://source.android.com/tech/input/touch-devices.html propbit INPUT_PROP_DIRECT should be set explicitly. This could be done in suinput_open with:

if (ioctl(uinput_fd, UI_SET_PROPBIT, INPUT_PROP_DIRECT) == -1)
    goto err;    

The catch is that neither UI_SET_PROPBIT nor INPUT_PROP_DIRECT defined in Android NDK. It could be copypasted from https://github.com/quarck/csetup/blob/master/csetup/jni/input.h

#define UI_SET_PROPBIT      _IOW(UINPUT_IOCTL_BASE, 110, int)
#define EVIOCGPROP(len)     _IOC(_IOC_READ, 'E', 0x09, len)
#define INPUT_PROP_POINTER      0x00
#define INPUT_PROP_DIRECT       0x01
#define INPUT_PROP_BUTTONPAD    0x02
#define INPUT_PROP_SEMI_MT      0x03
#define INPUT_PROP_MAX          0x1f
#define INPUT_PROP_CNT          (INPUT_PROP_MAX + 1)

This fix works for me.

[hyhjcjy]

Yes! It works for me, too!! Thank you sooooooo much :smile:

[hyhjcjy]

Oops! But the HTC Hero (OS: 2.x) becomes view only.

[alvin777]

Most likely ioctl line returns error. I think you can safely remove return value check here.

[hyhjcjy]

It seems that Adroid change the input control from 4.x, but the EVIOCGPROP ioctl only support by kernel 3.x. My HTC hero is the kernel of 2.6. So this

if (ioctl(uinput_fd, UI_SET_PROPBIT, INPUT_PROP_DIRECT) == -1) goto err;

would return error.

But if I remove the return value, the Android 4.0 phone becomes view only. @@

[ghost]

Guys try to pull the changes from the forked master https://github.com/rbrune/droid-VNC-server/commit/b7db761f13297f00f060a4d3e714c93e8794594b

That should fix the "touch and play" issue

[hyhjcjy]

Sorry, my fault. I cannot just remove the return line. It should leave a semicolon for the if statement.

if (ioctl(uinput_fd, UI_SET_PROPBIT, INPUT_PROP_DIRECT) == -1) ;

Then the two phones both work! (HTC Sensation XE ,4.0.3 & HTC hero, 2.x) Thanks to alvin777 again! You really help a lot!

[alvin777]

I'd leave just:

ioctl(uinput_fd, UI_SET_PROPBIT, INPUT_PROP_DIRECT)

You are welcome :)