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Native Keyboard on tablet

Jan 06, 2012 djmoore45 link
I am on a transformer prime and a complete newb to VO. One thing that i have noticed as a hinderance when trying to chat is that it does not pull up the native keyboard which makes it extremly hard to type while on the go. Is this something that we might see in the future. I do appoligize if this is something that might have been already covered. Was unable to locate anything when searched.
Jan 06, 2012 incarnate link
You can disable the touch UI entirely in the Options menu. This leaves you to playing entirely with the KB (for flight controls, you can use use touch for menus, etc), which frankly is better anyway. It will not bring up the soft-kb with the touch UI disabled.

We'd like to do more elaborate automatic detection, but it gets problematic with certain devices that do have integrated keyboards (phones, etc) that may or may not want to actually use them. You can trigger on "activation" of the keyboard, but again, that rule doesn't always hold true for specialized full-keyboard devices like the Transformers. We haven't quite found an ideal balance yet.

We have a TF101 and I found it worked pretty well in just keyboard-only mode.
Jan 06, 2012 djmoore45 link
I do appoligize for not being more specific, but what i was reffering to was more of your native keyboard for touch screen not being easy to type one witha 10 inch tablet. Were as the touch screen keyboard on my prime is split to the side of the screen making it easier to type. I have not gotten the keyboard attachment yet for my prime. Spent some of that money on my VO membership :) money well spent though.