Android Question How to show keyboard over activity

[adrianstanescu85]

Hello

In my application, one of the activities has an EditText and a Label. I set the Label_Click event to pop the keyboard so that anything the user enteres, that would go into EditText.

IME.ShowKeyboard(EditText1)

It works well, no problems there, just that the keyboard entry covers the whole screen. I'd very much use this with the keyboard covering just a portion (lower one let's say) of the screen, so I could still see the remaining activity.

How to do that?

Thank you!
Adrian

 

[margret]

After you show the keyboard, try to setfocus to the edittext. This should cause the edittext to show above the keyboard, like: edittext1.requestfocus.

 

[adrianstanescu85]

The "special" thing about this is that I put the EditText outside of the screen because I don't need to see the actual text and less see the cursor blink. So is this a good idea in this case?

 

[Erel]

Are you testing it in landscape orientation?

 

[adrianstanescu85]

Yes Erel, this is always done in landscape orientation (the whole app is like this). Is there a way to solve this?

 

[Erel]

This is the default behavior in Android.

You can disable it with the code posted here: http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/th...board-layout-on-the-screen.30954/#post-180056

 

[adrianstanescu85]

Thank you Erel! This solved the problem!