InputPanel

This property reflects the active status of the input panel. The keyboard should be made visible to the user when this property is true.

This property was introduced in QtQuick.VirtualKeyboard 2.0.

This property enables the external language switch mechanism. When this property is true, the virtual keyboard will not show the built-in language popup, but will emit the externalLanguageSwitch signal instead. The application can handle this signal and show a custom language selection dialog instead.

This property was introduced in QtQuick.VirtualKeyboard 2.4.

This signal is emitted when externalLanguageSwitchEnabled is true and the language switch key is pressed by the user.

It serves as a hook to display a custom language dialog instead of the built-in language popup in the virtual keyboard.

The localeList parameter contains a list of locale names to choose from. To get more information about a particular language, use the Qt.locale() function. The currentIndex is the index of current locale in the localeList. This item should be highlighted as the current item in the UI.

To select a new language, use the VirtualKeyboardSettings.locale property.

Below is an example that demonstrates a custom language dialog implementation:

Dialog {
    id: languageDialog
    title: "Select Input Language"
    modality: Qt.ApplicationModal

    function show(localeList, currentIndex) {
        languageListModel.clear()
        for (var i = 0; i < localeList.length; i++) {
            languageListModel.append({localeName: localeList[i], displayName: Qt.locale(localeList[i]).nativeLanguageName})
        }
        languageListView.currentIndex = currentIndex
        languageListView.positionViewAtIndex(currentIndex, ListView.Center)
        languageDialog.visible = true
    }

    contentItem: ListView {
        id: languageListView
        model: ListModel {
            id: languageListModel
            function selectItem(index) {
                VirtualKeyboardSettings.locale = languageListModel.get(index).localeName
                languageDialog.visible = false
            }
        }
        delegate: Item {
            id: languageListItem
            width: languageNameTextMetrics.width * 17
            height: languageNameTextMetrics.height + languageListLabel.anchors.topMargin + languageListLabel.anchors.bottomMargin
            Text {
                id: languageListLabel
                anchors.left: parent.left
                anchors.top: parent.top
                anchors.leftMargin: languageNameTextMetrics.height / 2
                anchors.rightMargin: anchors.leftMargin
                anchors.topMargin: languageNameTextMetrics.height / 3
                anchors.bottomMargin: anchors.topMargin
                text: languageNameFormatter.elidedText
                color: "#5CAA15"
                font {
                    weight: Font.Normal
                    pixelSize: 28
                }
            }
            TextMetrics {
                id: languageNameTextMetrics
                font {
                    weight: Font.Normal
                    pixelSize: 28
                }
                text: "X"
            }
            TextMetrics {
                id: languageNameFormatter
                font {
                    weight: Font.Normal
                    pixelSize: 28
                }
                elide: Text.ElideRight
                elideWidth: languageListItem.width - languageListLabel.anchors.leftMargin - languageListLabel.anchors.rightMargin
                text: displayName
            }
            MouseArea {
                anchors.fill: parent
                hoverEnabled: true
                onClicked: {
                    if (index === -1)
                        return
                    parent.ListView.view.currentIndex = index
                    parent.ListView.view.model.selectItem(index)
                }
            }
            states: State {
                name: "current"
                when: languageListItem.ListView.isCurrentItem
                PropertyChanges {
                    target: languageListLabel
                    color: "black"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

The dialog would then be declared:

LanguageDialog {
    id: languageDialog
    width: 400
    height: 400
}

In the application's InputPanel, add the following code:

InputPanel {
    id: inputPanel
    externalLanguageSwitchEnabled: true
    onExternalLanguageSwitch: languageDialog.show(localeList, currentIndex)
    // ...
}

The custom dialog will now be shown when the language switch key is pressed.

Note: The corresponding handler is onExternalLanguageSwitch.

This signal was introduced in QtQuick.VirtualKeyboard 2.4.