Focus and keyboard ...

[Hubert Brandel]

Hi,

I open a activity with a multiline edittext view and two buttons (OK, Cancel)
I load some text bevor and save the edited text after OK. That works, but...

I want to set the focus inside the edittext and show the virtual keyboard.
I tried it this way:

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
   Log("EdtBem start: " & sBemerkung ) ' OK
   Activity.LoadLayout("WinBemerkung") ' will show
   Activity.Title    = main.sTitle & " - Bemerkungen" ' OK
   edtBemerkung.Text = sBemerkung ' OK
   edtBemerkung.RequestFocus ' ?
   edtBemerkung.InputType = edtBemerkung.INPUT_TYPE_TEXT ' ?
   DoEvents
End Sub

I got the edittext with the right old text to edit and there is a small cursor in the view, but there is NO keyboard ...
If I touch the edittext view, the right keyboard will come .

And after i touch OK, the text is saved, the activity is closed and I see the starting activity, BUT WITH the keyboard ...

Sub Activity_Pause (UserClosed As Boolean)
   Log("EdtBem Stop: (" & UserClosed & ") " & sBemerkung ) 
   edtBemerkung.InputType = edtBemerkung.INPUT_TYPE_NONE
   DoEvents
End Sub

I thought I could hide by this, but this does not work.

Any Idea ?

PS: I can hide the keyboard by pressing the phones BACK button, but I need it automatic ;-)

 

[stevel05]

Try this Basic4android - Phone

 

[Hubert Brandel]

Thanks a lot :sign0060:

 

[Hubert Brandel]

this will hide the Keyboard perfectly ...

dim p as phone
p.HideKeyboard (Activity )

but isn't there a function for show it automatic ?

 

[Koverhage]

Hi Hubert,

maybe this help ?

http://www.b4x.com/forum/additional...basic4android-v1-60-released-3.html#post61599

 

[stevel05]

Erel has answered this here

I have played with this too, and after a couple of hours I thought I could have written a keyboard to do what I want by now, so that's what I'm doing.

 

[stevel05]

@ Koverhage

Yes, that's about as far as I got yesterday, but as Andrew points out in his post, it doesn't work reliably for all flavours of Android.

 

[Hubert Brandel]

Hi,

I am now able to HIDE it. That was most important.

In the link from stevel05 Erel wrote, that this is the normal behavier of Android, so I think thats OK for me ;-)

 

[vb1992]

Maybe with Reflector?

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);

 

[Erel]

There is no reliable way to show the keyboard (at least not that I'm familiar with).