Android Question KeyPress Event

Cableguy said:

B4XPages parent is, in most cases, the MainActivity... if your goal is to catch keypresses dedicated to a particular view, then you need to see if that view already exposes such event, or if not, create a listener to it (custom event). Such events are almost specific to Text views like TextView and such.

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roerGarcia said:

Maybe this https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/how-to-assign-hot-key-to-button.93697/#post-592722

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William Lancee said:

I took some time to experiment. It possible to have mastery over the soft keyboard and capture key presses for any page in B4XPages - even without an apparent target view! The IME has to be handled in Main Activity module. Here is my convoluted solution. There are likely much more elegant ways!

B4X:

'In Main Activity module
Sub Globals
    Private ime As IME
End Sub

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    ime.Initialize("IME")
    Dim pm As B4XPagesManager
    pm.Initialize(Activity)
End Sub

Public Sub showKB(v As EditText)
    ime.ShowKeyboard(v)
End Sub

Public Sub hideKB
    ime.HideKeyboard
End Sub

B4X:

'In page where keycodes need to be captured.

Private Sub B4XPage_Created (Root1 As B4XView)
    Root = Root1
'    Root.LoadLayout("page2")
    Dim ghostView As EditText
    ghostView.Initialize("ghostView")
    Root.AddView(ghostView, 0, 0, 0, 0)
  
    Sleep(50)
    ghostView.RequestFocus
    CallSub2(Main, "showKB", ghostView)
  
    'if you want to hide the keyboard
    'CallSub(Main, "hideKB")
End Sub

Private Sub ghostView_TextChanged(old As String, new As String)
    Log(new.charAT(new.length-1))
End Sub

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