Android Question Webbrowser Keyboard control DONE

Rusty · Jun 24, 2020

Is there a way to force the Android Keyboard shown in a webbrowser:

B4X:

Dim WebView1 As WebView
    Dim WebViewExtras1 As WebViewExtras
    Dim WebViewSetting1 As WebViewSettings
...
WebView1.Initialize("WWW") 
    WebView1.JavaScriptEnabled=True
    WebViewExtras1.addJavascriptInterface(WebView1, "B4A") 
    WebViewExtras1.addWebChromeClient(WebView1,"Chrome")
    WebViewSetting1.setDatabaseEnabled(WebView1, True)
    WebViewSetting1.setDatabasePath(WebView1, "")
    Activity.AddView(WebView1, 0, 0, 100%x, 100%y)
    WebView1.LoadUrl("file:///android_asset/journey1.htm")
...

HTML:
<form action="/form/button" action="get">
<label class="question top_question" for="q2">
What was it? <b class="icon_required" style="color: #FF0000">*</b>
</label>
<textarea name="q2" rows="3" style="width: 100%">
</textarea>
<input type="submit" name="q2" class="OK" value="OK" />
</form>>

Currently, the keyboard shows an (CrLF) key. I'd like to execute a DONE operation so the JScript will execute.
Is there a way to get a keyboard DONE function from this?
Regards,
Rusty

Erel · Jun 25, 2020

Rusty said:
WebView1.LoadUrl("file:///android_asset/journey1.htm")

Change to XUI.FileUri and it will work in debug and release.

Remember that the less you use WebView, the better.
The keyboard behavior depends on the WebView content. You might be able to force it by modifying the html.

Rusty · Jun 25, 2020

Thanks Erel,
I updated the Webview1.Loadurl to:

B4X:

WebView1.LoadUrl(XUI.FileUri(File.DirAssets, "journey1.htm"))

However, I fail to understand how to "force it" to allow the Enter Key to function like a DONE key, or possibly intercept keystrokes from the Webview prior to their consumption by the Webview...?
Thanks for your (or anyone's) help.
Rusty

PS I found this managing-keyboard-on-webview but have no idea how to import this into B4a...
Advice would be appreciated

Erel · Jun 26, 2020

I don't have a simple solution for you. What are you using WebView for?

Rusty · Jun 26, 2020

I have HTML that is interspersed with labels; text; unordered and ordered lists; etc.
Also embedded are <input textareas (because I need to use multiple lines and long text lengths that are longer than the width of the screen...allowed by <input text)
i.e.:

B4X:

<form action="/form/button" action="get">
<label class="question top_question" for="q1">
What happened?&nbsp;<b class="icon_required" style="color: #FF0000">*</b>           
<textarea name="q1" rows="3" style="width: 95%"></textarea>
<br />
<br />
<input type="submit" name="q1" class="OK" value="Next >" /> 
<br />
<br />
</form>

I've added the submit button due to the inability to force the DONE button or to intercept the keystrokes as they come in.
I prefer to allow them to click the DONE button to proceed to the next textarea.
Maybe there is a better way ?
Thanks
Rusty

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