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fhfghgfh434
Inspiring
February 13, 2012
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AIR - prevent soft keyboard closing?

  • February 13, 2012
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Hello

I have a mobile AIR app with a simple layout:

<s:View ...>

<s:layout><s:VerticalLayout /></s:layout>

<s:TextArea width="100%" height="100%" />

<HGroup width="100%" >

     <s:Button label="button" />

     <s:Button label="button" />

     <s:Button label="button" />

</HGroup>

</s:View>

The application is set to resize when the soft keyboard opens by setting resizeForSoftKeyboard="true" in the main app. The textArea uses the default Flex 4.6 skin.

My problem is, that if the user opens the keyboard by typing text into my texArea, he will be unable to click the buttons below the TextArea, because as soon as he tries to click a button the soft keyboard lowers (because the focus it out of the TextArea) and immediately opens again (because the mouseDown position is now above the TextArea).

I think this is the order of events: 1. textArea loses focus 2. keyboard goes goes down, keyboardDeactivate event dispatched. 3. mouseDown registers on the (expanded) textArea, so keyboard comes back up.

How can i prevent the soft keyboard from closing, so the user is able to click the buttons between the TextArea and the keyboard?

Note: SkinnablePopupContainer uses some hack to solve this, i just cant figure out how..

Thanks

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Zorgonski
Known Participant
March 26, 2012

The solution is to use: FocusEvent.MOUSE_FOCUS_CHANGE and when the target of the event is not TextField of input type you should event.preventDefault().

works like charm, if you want to hide it manually do "stage.focus  = null"

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    Joenesy
    Participating Frequently
    February 14, 2012

    I'm looking for more or less the same answer.

    what I want is a way to prevent the softkeyboard from going down after hitting enter.

    I currently have a work around by calling a function that set's focus to a text field with a delay of 0.05 seconds after the return key on the softkeyboard has been pressed.

    the function that is called with after the delay:

    stage.focus = tf;

    tf.requestSoftKeyboard();

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    fhfghgfh434Author
    Inspiring
    February 15, 2012

    The problem with requestSoftKeyboard(); is, that it only works on Android...

    What i did was the following:

    i overlay an invisible Textfield over the button - this will cause the click event to register (and the keyboard goes down), but the layout does not register this change, thus youll left with an empty space where the keyboard was..

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