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How to build a custom input method?
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Hi,
I'm trying to build a less awkward input method for typing lots of words on Hololens. Does anyone know is that even possible to override the default input method on Hololens, and if so, where could I find related documentation?
Thanks a lot!
Hololol
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Patrick
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Yes, there are rest apis for VirtualInput, but I don't see them documented, so you might have to do a little reverse engineering with fiddler or some other network monitoring tool.
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Patrick
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looks pretty basic
Request URL: https://..yourhlip.../api/holographic/input/keyboard/text?text=...sometext...
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What exactly are you looking to override? the air-tap gesture ?
Toronto-HoloLens | Blog | @alexdrenea
You could use a Bluetooth keyboard. Will that help?
Sorry for the vagueness. My final goal is to make typing easier on Hololens, but for now. the idea is to build an app for iOS and Android that's similar to the official Hololens assistant, which can turn your phone into a Bluetooth keyboard.
So before I start out to build the app, I need to figure out is it possible on the Hololens side, it might be like building an IME for Windows desktop. Could you help? Thanks!
Yes, there are rest apis for VirtualInput, but I don't see them documented, so you might have to do a little reverse engineering with fiddler or some other network monitoring tool.
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(Daddy, what does 'now formatting drive C:' mean?)
looks pretty basic
Request URL: https://..yourhlip.../api/holographic/input/keyboard/text?text=...sometext...
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(Daddy, what does 'now formatting drive C:' mean?)
Thanks for guiding me to the Device Portal documentation, that's quite helpful indeed!
And I'm wondering is there a way to achieve the same effect without enabling developer mode?
The API's won't work without developer mode. That's what starts the internal mini web server that hosts the portal and the API.
+1 for @Patrick for the API call
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