type="email" for AS3?

[Guest]

Gidday

In HTML5, clicking in an input text field that is of type="email", makes mobile devices show a keyboard specifically for entering emails. Is it possible to do the same for a text field in AS3 when designing an AIR app for iOS/Android?

Cheers

[kglad]

using an input textfield should trigger the keyboard when it receives focus

[Guest]

Hey mate

It triggers the keyboard, but there are two types of keyboard you can trigger with HTML5 - the regular one, and one that is set up for entering emails - it has the @ key, and the . key. I'm wondering how you trigger the latter with AS3.

[moccamaximum]

I doubt that every mobile device has these two types of keyboard. there are literally thousands of different android devices (phones/tablets) that implement these things differently (I have for example a Toshiba Thrive Tablet and never encountered such a "special" keyboard), you should stick to the one this special device defaults to, since that is what the user of this device expects.

[Guest]

You're quite right - but HTML5 displays the field as type="text" if type="email' is not supported - I was wondering if AS3 has something similar?

[3134957]

Hello,

You can use StageText to resolve your issue on mobile

Please take reference from http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/text/StageText.html#softKey...

[Guest]

Thanks for that. I had a play and can get the input text to show on the desktop, but not on the phone, so I'll delve into it a bit more soon to figure it all out. Cheers.