Capturing keyboard input

[anaylor01]

I want to capture keyboard input and put the text on a canvas. When the user clicks a button I want to open the keyboard and then capture what they type and put that on the canvas. Can this be done? If so is there an example somewhere? I am getting a signature does not match expected signature error.

 

[Erel]

You can try setting the focus to an EditText which is located out of the viewable screen. Then you can use the TextChanged event to handle the input.

I am getting a signature does not match expected signature error

We cannot help if you don't post the code and the full error message.

 

[anaylor01]

Oh. So I can set the left of the edittext box to screenwidth + 10? That's cool I didn't know you could do that.
I thought I deleted that part about the error. I figured it out. Thanks Erel.

 

[anaylor01]

Ok. I use request focus and it puts the cursor in the edittext box but it doesn't bring up the keyboard. Am I doing something wrong?

Sub btnText_click
edtblank.RequestFocus
End Sub

 

[Erel]

You are right. It will not work without the user clicking on the EditText.

 

[anaylor01]

So there is no way to open the keyboard programmatically?

 

[Erel]

Currently there is no way.

 

[anaylor01]

So programmatically you can create a touch event?

 

[anaylor01]

I put the code in the textchanged event but it doesn't put it on the screen until I press the Done button. I want it to show each letter as it is typed.