Hide Device KeyBoard

[junaidahmed]

How to hide device keyboard when pressing an Button.pls advise.

 

[Erel]

Currently it is not possible. However in many cases you can set the EditText.ForceDone property to true and then handle EditText_EnterPressed event.
This way the user will enter the text and press Done. It will close the keyboard and do the required action.

 

[junaidahmed]

Thanks for quick replay.

 

[junaidahmed]

sorry its not working When trigger EnterPressed event in button click event, my code is

Sub Button1_Click()

EditText_EnterPressed

End Sub

Sub EditText_EnterPressed

EditText.ForceDoneButton = False

End Sub

pls advise how to hide keyboard when clicking button.

 

[Erel]

You cannot hide the keyboard by code. By setting ForceDoneButton to true you are giving the user an option to enter the text and press on the keyboard Done button. This will close the keyboard and do the action.

 

[klaus]

Attached a small test program.
Button1 copies the text from EditText1.Text to Label1.Text.
EditText2 has the ForceDone parameter set to True.
The EditText2_EnterPressed routine copies the text from EditText2.Text to Label2.Text similar to Button1_Click.

That's what Erel suggests.

Best regards.

 

[Gary Miyakawa]

Just wondered if maybe a resolution to this got pulled into 1.5.... Looking for someway to set "hideSoftInputFromWindow" thru B4A...

Thanks,

Gary M

 

[Erel]

Not yet. It is still in the features list.

 

[TDowdeswell]

Soft Keyboard display

Currently it is not possible. However in many cases you can set the EditText.ForceDone property to true and then handle EditText_EnterPressed event.
This way the user will enter the text and press Done. It will close the keyboard and do the required action.

I'm a VB6 and VBA developer rapidly getting to grips with B4A (and Android 'phones).

Which is the 'Done' key on the soft kb? I have read that 'Back' is often used with Android but this doesn't seem to have the desired effect - it just deletes the previous chartacter, as I would expect.

I have set ForceDone=True for all my text inputs and can trap the event but what should I do with it once it's trrapped so that I can remove the keyboard and display another panel?

Thanks for any help,



Terry Dowdeswell

 

[canalrun]

I'm a VB6 and VBA developer rapidly getting to grips with B4A (and Android 'phones).

Which is the 'Done' key on the soft kb? I have read that 'Back' is often used ...
Thanks for any help,

Terry Dowdeswell

Yesterday I saw a post from Agraham about using his Reflection library to implement functions that have not yet been exposed in B4A:

As an example you can also get and set it using my Reflection library which is useful for accessing things that Basic4android does not expose.
Code:

Dim Obj1, Obj2 As Reflector
Obj1.Target = View1
Obj1.RunMethod2("setKeepScreenOn", True, "java.lang.boolean")
Obj2.Target = Obj1.RunMethod("getKeepScreenOn")
Msgbox(Obj2.ToString, "KeepScreenOn")

I wonder if this procedure could be used to hide the soft keyboard?

Thanks,
Barry.

 

[Gary Miyakawa]

Thanks to the new B4A 1.6, we now have phone.hidekeyboard !!

Works great! Thank you !

GaryM