Homebrew Keyboard

[Gocario]

Hello.

Is there a way to access to the Nintendo 3DS Keyboard that Nintendo provides?
Since it's used by applications, homebrews could too, right?

I was working on an implementation in a homebrew, when that question came to me...
But it would be cumbersome to write it.

 

[Seriel]

-pls no, i'm an idiot-

 

[Gocario]

I mean, the virtual Keyboard which appears on the bottom 3DS screen when you have to type something.

 

[Seriel]

I mean, the virtual Keyboard which appears on the bottom 3DS screen when you have to type something.

Poop.
I'm dumb.
Well, thats... a lot easier xD
Never mind.

 

[GalladeGuy]

AFAIK homebrew doesn't have access to the keyboard. I don't remember why though.

 

[Deleted User]

AFAIK homebrew doesn't have access to the keyboard. I don't remember why though.

I think it's because we just don't know how to get it to open yet.

 

[GalladeGuy]

I think it's because we just don't know how to get it to open yet.

Yeah, that's probably it. XD

 

[josamilu]

The keyboard is a part of The official Nintendo dev kit. You can acces The keyboard through homebrew you write with the leaked one. The best and easiest way to get a keyboard is using one of The existing free homebrew lib.

 

[TheCruel]

I know Megazig on #3dsdev said he was working on that, it's the APT keyboard applet I believe, but it not yet implemented in ctrulib afaik. I haven't bothered looking into it because I don't like how it suspends your program while you input text. Plus I made my own keyboard class that can load an layout from xml, so I'm fine.

 

[Sono]

it's the APT keyboard applet I believe, but it not yet implemented in ctrulib afaik. I haven't bothered looking into it because I don't like how it suspends your program while you input text

Also, when launching the keyboard applet through APT, it just shows up as a parental control PIN-input, and then if you try to open it again, it softlocks the 3DS, so you'll need to L+R+DOWN+B out of the frozen state. I have looked at CTR_SDK's header files, and it looks like it's very hard to operate the keyboard, even from the official SDK.

Edit:
There's a swkbd lib in the official SDK, but the stupid header file is for C++ only How are C developers supposed to use the SDK?

//bit off-topic
I feel sorry for the 3DS developers who use the official SDK, because it's a big cryptic mess