[Q] "Activity" for launching input method - G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, a wanted to know if there is a way to set a custom activity (using anycut / launcher pro "activity" etc) to open the "input method" (the pop up when you long press a text field and select "input method" to change keyboards.
My intent is, actually to assign one of the "quick keys" to input method to quickly change keys. If seen that there is widget that enables this (using "power control plus" from the market), but I haven't been able to make a custom activity for this.
Running Dalvik Debug Manager, I think the command is something like
WARN/InputManagerService(1437): Window already focused, ignoring focus gain of: [email protected]
but I'm not well versed in android development to understand this.
Any help? Thanks in advance!

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jfenton57 said:
Two issues with this rom:
A) can't get home switcher to stay loaded so that I can switch to Launcher Pro. Is there anyway around this?
B) Is there any way to get rid of the HTC embedded mod keyboard and use Swift Key? There is no setting under KEYBOARD which allows you to choose which keyboard to use?
Thanks, in Advance....
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I have a widget (that was originally defined by another developer).
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ProfessorStein said:
I have a widget (that was originally defined by another developer).
The menu on Long Press on this widget does not have an Edit option. But a Short Press gets me into the config pages and I can edit layout, etc… UNTIL I set a Widget OnTap Action. Once defined, of course, short pressing on the widget executes the OnTap Action, and I seemingly have no way to get back to the config pages.
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I'm on the current 1.54.651.8 (well, a rooted version of it), and can't figure out how to change input methods, for example, to a 3rd-party keyboard.
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pbarrett said:
I'm on the current 1.54.651.8 (well, a rooted version of it), and can't figure out how to change input methods, for example, to a 3rd-party keyboard.
It used to be, you'd long-press in an input field, and you'd get a prompt to select the input method.
Some say you should see a keyboard icon in the status-bar.
I don't get either of these. In settings / Language and keyboard, there's no obvious way to change the default device.
Long-press on the spacebar also does nothing (except to repeat space).
Is this maybe broken in this update? (Or in the BadSeed Rooted Stock 1.54.651.8 I'm running?)
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If you get SwiftKey keyboard as you set it up it will say set as default might work
Hmm. Well, that worked.
The SwiftKey setup popped up the Choose Input Method dialog that I was looking for.
Then I selected Smart Keyboard as my input method.
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