My previous post about split entry was pretty long but worked well for me on Symbian 3 Pr1.2 and Symbian Anna devices, however with the new Belle devices being shipped the same code doesn’t work on them reliably. Belle ships with Qt 4.7.4 which actually makes split entry very easy to use with just a single line of code needed in the main.cpp file of your project:

 QCoreApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_S60DisablePartialScreenInputMode, false ); 

 QApplication app(argc, argv);
QCoreApplication::setAttribute( Qt::AA_S60DisablePartialScreenInputMode, false );

Whilst this code is valid on Anna devices and wont cause any breakages / compilation errors it wont fire the split entry keyboard.

So for SymNote I’m using a slightly modified version of the code from my old post with the line mentioned above, here are the modifications:

main.cpp

#include <QInputContext>
#include "splitview.h"
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

 bool belle = false;
    #ifdef Q_OS_SYMBIAN
       
        QString version = qVersion();
        int size = version.length();
        if(
                size == 5 &&
                version.mid(2, 1) == "7" &&
                version.mid(4, 1) == "4"
        ){
            belle = true;
        }
    #endif

QApplication app(argc, argv);
QCoreApplication::setAttribute( Qt::AA_S60DisablePartialScreenInputMode, false );
SplitView sv(belle);
viewer.rootContext()->setContextProperty("SplitView", &sv);

....

This bit in the main.cpp file detects which version of Qt being used at runtime and if its Qt 4.7.4 then set a bool value (belle) to true. The value belle is passed to an updated version of the SplitView class made previously. The modifications for that class are as follows:

splitview.h

public:
    explicit SplitView( bool belle, QObject *parent = 0);
    bool belle;

splitview.cpp

SplitView::SplitView(bool b, QObject *parent) :
    QObject(parent)
{

    belle = b;
    qDebug() << "=== Using Belle Split Entry?" << belle;
    if( !belle ){
        VkbStateObserver* obs = new VkbStateObserver(this);
        connect(obs, SIGNAL(vkbStateChanged(int)), this, SLOT(keyboardStateChange(int)));
    }

}

void SplitView::enableSplitView()
{
#if defined(Q_OS_SYMBIAN)
    if( !belle ){
        //qDebug() << "Split Entry";
        MCoeFepAwareTextEditor *fte = CCoeEnv::Static()->AppUi()->InputCapabilities().FepAwareTextEditor();

        // FepAwareTextEditor() returns 0 if no text editor is present
        if (fte)
        {
            CAknEdwinState *state = STATIC_CAST(CAknEdwinState*, fte->Extension1()->State(KNullUid));
            state->SetFlags(state->Flags() | EAknEditorFlagEnablePartialScreen);
        }
    }
#endif
}

And that’s it! Basically all we’re doing is telling the SplitView class if we’re using Qt 4.7.4 and then if so ignore all the old split entry class stuff and using belle’s split entry implementation!

My previous post about split entry was pretty long but worked well for me on Symbian 3 Pr1.2 and Symbian Anna devices, however with the new Belle devices being shipped the...