Hidekeyboard and inputdialog problem

It is not possible to use HideKeyboard with a keyboard that was added for a dialog. This is a limitation of dialogs.

I was able to achieve some success hiding the keyboard that was raised by agrahams custom dialogs by placing a DoEvents before and after the ph.HideKeyboard statement. And it also seemed to help a little to do a little processing, like checking the validity and format of an entered number, before trying to hide it. Like this


Erel, is there a chance you might include ph.ShowKeyboard in your next release?
Andrew, would you be so kind to show us a ShowKeyboard workaround using your Reflection object?

Many thanks

Erel, is there a chance you might include ph.ShowKeyboard in your next release?

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I'm not saying that it is impossible, however I didn't yet find a reliable way to show the keyboard. So no promises here...

Erel said:

It is not possible to use HideKeyboard with a keyboard that was added for a dialog. This is a limitation of dialogs.

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The workaround I used to this is using the keygen library to send a 4. It works on a separate thread but basically you send yourself a back_key keypress. This should hide the keyboard. Perhaps other devices could use something other than 4, so use the keypress sub to see what your back key generates.