text input for mobile device with hardware keyboard

Question

I have an application that will always run on a mobile device with a hardware keyboard. Is there a way to suppress the appearance of the soft keyboard with the TextInput class?

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/mobileapps/WS82181550ec4a666a39bafe0312d9a274c00-8000.html#WS19f279b149e7481c-4cb7e4a013321c24dab-8000

"The text input controls always open the keyboard when receiving focus. They ignore the needsSoftKeyboard property, and setting it has no effect on the text input controls."

This suggestion for using the preventDefault for a SoftKeyboardEvent does not work.

http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2011/05/08/controlling-the-soft-keyboard-in-flex-mobile-applications/

Is the solution basically to not use the TextInput class and handle all of the hardware keyboard events manually with an alternative like a label?

Mark.fromOP · Answer

You could have an arrow next to the text field and when the user clicks that you tell the app to enter the incoming text into a specific field, its a little weird but should avoid the keyboard popping up issue. Or instead of it being an arrow make your text field dynamic so you can give it an instance name, then place an invisible box over the top of it. When the user clicks that box you highlight the textbox so they know they are on the right field and then feed the keyboard input into the textbox.

Also maybe you can suppress the soft keyboard as soon as it pops up, so instead of it not popping up it does for a split second and you instantly call a function to hide it. Just some thoughts.

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