softKeyboard in iOS

Question

Hi,I'm struggling with a text editor issue in iOS. My customer uses RichEditableText in a web project and wants to use the same in iOS, but there is no softKeyboard support in iOS for this.I've tried cobbling together something to act as an alias, but that doesn't request the keyboard either.So it looks as if I am limited to either TextArea or TextInput for request of soft keyboard? But that can't be right, surely?There must be a way to get the requestSoftKeyboard() function to be respected in iOS. Please provide any pointers you can!G

Santanu Karar · Answer

There was another thread on this with softKeyboard with iOS app, and I'm attaching what Joe..Ward said in one of the post - might helpful to understand you the process and probably a workaround -

"The requestSoftKeyboard() method isn't supported on iOS, except for TextField objects. At the time I wrote the docs you cite, calling requestSoftKeyboard() for a text field was redundant since assigning the stage focus to the text field raised the keyboard on its own and you had to set the focus before calling requestSoftKeyboard(). Now calling requestSoftKeyboard() is required for TextField objects. (And you don't have to set focus beforehand anymore, it is set automatically by the keyboard request call.)

Here's an example that works in AIR 3: http://recycledinformation.blogspot.com/2011/10/custom-text-entry-on-i os.html"

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