SIP in Basic4Android

[junaidahmed]

How to use SIP (Soft input Panel --> Automatic Keyboard invoke when focus) in Basic4Android like in Basic4PPC

 

[Cor]

focus is not supported yet (b4a)

only when you access the view

grCor

 

[JesseW]

Cor, he wasn't asking how to use focus, he was asking how to use the keyboard and make it popup when an item does take focus. I've seen it but can't remember where it was. You can even choose whether to make letters or numbers and symbols appear. Erel ... help?

 

[Erel]

You should set the EditText.InputType value: Basic4android - Views (Core)

It will determine which keyboard pops up when the user presses on the EditBox.

 

[Cor]

It automatically pops up when entering editbox and if set to input type to numbers in designer, it pops up the number layout of the keyboard

grCor

 

[Domingo]

How can I hide the input panel trough programmation? Because it is displayed when touch an edittext box, but only hide when touch the back key.

 

[Erel]

The user can also hide it by pressing on the "Done" key.
This is the regular behavior of Android.
If you like to not show the keyboard at all then you should change the InputType to none.

 

[Domingo]

Then, it not exists a instruccion like sip(true) and sip(false) as well as b4ppc?

 

[Erel]

Currently not. The virtual keyboard is a bit more complicated compared to the Windows Mobile version. I believe that it will be added soon.

 

[JesseW]

It is possible through Android's InputMethodManager. You would have to use AGraham's reflection library to access it, which can be frustrating if you're not a Java coder. If AGraham sees this thread he will be able to give a code example of how to do it.