Android Question b4xfloattextfield keyboard type change at runtime

[Rusty]

Can you change a b4xFloatTextField input/keyboard type at runtime.
I'd like to use the same view for both numeric and text, but set the keyboard upon display.
Thanks,
Rusty

 

[emexes]

Can you change a b4xFloatTextField input/keyboard type at runtime.
I'd like to use the same view for both numeric and text, but set the keyboard upon display.

This is only half-an-answer, because I am in the middle of a project and haven't been game to update my B4A to the B4XLIB level, but... it used to work, and I would expect that the XUI library would be similarly capable.

(with the proviso that: when you say "set the keyboard upon display", presumably you mean display of the field, not display of the keyboard... changing the keyboard after it is displayed sounds like a much more ambitious affair ;-)

Dim InputField As EditText

InputField.Text = VariableContainingExistingFieldData

If IsNumber(InputField.Text) Then
    InputField.InputType = InputField.INPUT_TYPE_DECIMAL_NUMBERS
Else
    InputField.InputType = InputField.INPUT_TYPE_TEXT
End If

 

[emexes]

I should add that: from memory, IsNumber("") = False, which is likely to be what you want, but... something to think about.

Eg. if the initial field is blank, you might initialize it to a default or sample entry.

 

[Rusty]

Thanks Emexes,
I found the solution HERE