cgeo/c-geo-opensource — Issue #781: Coordinates input problematic with Swype keyboard
Author: Lineflyer
Created: 2011-11-13 11:24:12+00:00
State: open

(Using NB1311- 01a6ad6)
After updating my phone (Samsung Galaxy SII) to Android 2.3.4 I have a strange problem:
When using the coordinates input (e.g. by "Any destination") with the input helper (format: DDD MM.MMM) all the fields are preselected on access as usual. This means when I start typing the previous content is replaced by the numbers I enter.

This is still working normal in all fields except for the MM input of longitude:
After entering the DDD information the focus jumps to the MM field and the content is preselected normally, but if I input some digits they are just appended to the exisiting digits. The MMM field is again working normal.

The strange thing is, that if I selected the android default keyboard instead of the Swype keyboard it is working normal again.

Now you could say, that this is a pure Samsung-Swype problem, but I found out the following:
If I use the latest market version (instead of the NB mentioned above) the behaviour changes a little bit.
With this version the same problem also occurs in the MM field of the latitude (North/south) coordinates. This field was OK in the NB-version.

This brings me to the conclusion that the problem is based by the Swype-keyboard but also somehow related to a programming issue.

I hope you can follow my explanations...it is a little hard to describe the problem.