textinput bug with swipe typing

[eulerreich]

I'm on android 4.3 with cyanogenmod, using the AOSP keyboard.

In a TextInput, if I type "hello" by swiping, the output is hello. If I then follow it immediately by "world" by swiping, the total output so far is helloworld. If I then tap another key, say "y", the output becomes helloworldworld y.

So 2 things are wrong: 1) there should be a space between hello and world, or even better, let there be an option for whether to auto-insert spaces between swiped words. 2) the more egregious: world shouldn't be repeated when I tap another key.

This happens in my own app and also with the kivy showcase.

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[merriam]

Right. I think I found this as an error down in kivy/behaviors.py/select_with_key_down(). Basically, time.clock() was used instead of time.time(), which meant the 'delay' for keys being different words never triggered. Might be fixed shortly.

[akshayaurora]

@merriam behaviours have nothing to do with how input is handled through android IME's you might want to look in here https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/blob/master/src/src/org/renpy/android/SDLSurfaceView.java#L1075 this is where input from IME is handled and passed onto kivy text input

[merriam]

@akshayaurora Thank you, I was incorrect. I was trying to find an already submitted bug for the fix here:
https://github.com/merriam/kivy/commit/d735622ad5802d6d42a2a739ab83a7521a34e6d4

I will submit a fresh bug.

[dessant]

Duplicate of #3284.