Delaying Mobile Devices' soft Keyboard from opening

Update ***

So, I was able to address the auto-focus issue. You have a couple options - not sure how comfortable you are with editing program files. But the code that triggers the auto-focus can be found in the CPM.js file. Yours may differ from mine, since I'm using C2017, but the line is: (this.inputField = document.getElementById(b.n + "_inputField")) && this.inputField.focus()

The CPM.js file, unfortunately gets created AFTER you publish, however you can load an external javascript file AFTER the CPM.js loads, that contains the same function, in order to over write it.

You can comment out the code above; however, this will affect desktop auto-focus as well (which feels hit or miss anyhow).

Alternatively, you can check the user OS with this cpInfoMobileOS to see if its desktop (returns 0) or another OS, and remove it only from the ones you don't want it to auto-focus on.

If I can figure out how to fix the other bugs, I'll be in good shape!

Hey there. I submit this feature to Adobe to allow an option to not have text-entry boxes auto-focus a couple weeks ago. It feels like a very big oversight and something standard that should be an option since its a bit jarring to enter a slide and have the virtual keyboard jump out at you. I've applied a work-around in the meantime that works maybe 80-90% of the time. I haven't been able to get it to work in every instance.

I set a timer to trigger @ 250ms onEnter Slide that reshifts the focus to something else on screen. It looks something like this:

var myTimer = setTimeout(setFocus, 250);
function setFocus(){$("#myOtherObjectNameThatsNotTheTEB").focus();}

You may see a slight graphic twitch/stutter if there's an icon on the device that appears when the virtual keyboard opens, but it basically closes it, before it has the chance to completely open and be visual. Like I said, its not as reliable as I'd like it to be. I've tried different methods of when to apply this, and different lengths of time on the timer, and this is about as good as I've been able to get.

I'm using C2017, so maybe some of this will/wont apply to your situation, but a couple things to note, I've come across bugs related to TEB's. On Android devices, if users are using the playbar navigation (or at least have it still on screen), and they tap the back key to close the virtual keyboard, the playbar never comes back on screen. If they rotate their device, the playbar will come back. Not as big an issue, if you're forcing gestures on mobile and dont allow the playbar to be visible.

The other issue, if you 'disallow landscape mode' in the Publish Settings, and open the virtual keyboard while in portrait mode, for some reason, on my Android device, it thinks its in landscape mode, shows the message I applied, and doesn't allow me to type. I can't really get the screen to get back to where it was from there. I reported that to Adobe as well.

Hopefully this will help in your Captivate journeys! Good luck.