keyboard

[adrianomurta]

hi,

how to activate on the screen the keyboard

example:

when i use edittext.RequestFocus the keyboard dont show.

BUT

the keyboard only show if i click in the edittext

any idea

TIA Adriano

 

[Erel]

This is the default behavior of Android. I know that it sounds simple, but programmatically showing the keyboard is very difficult and unreliable.

 

[nfordbscndrd]

how to activate on the screen the keyboard...

If being able to bring up a keyboard via code is critical for your app, you can do so by using a custom keyboard, but doing so requires some work. See http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr.../11631-custom-keyboard-creator-interface.html for help.

 

[adrianomurta]

tks

 

[Rusty]

After much effort, I've realized that if you want to reliably SHOW the keyboard, you must initialize the edittext view every time you want the keyboard displayed (reliably).
you can initialize the same edittext multiple times and even change attributes such as INPUT_TYPE from PHONE, TEXT etc.

Obviously, you can HIDE the keyboard with the phone.hidekeyboard

ph.HideKeyboard(activity)

You can SHOW the keyboard with the initialize function of the edit text

edtText.Initialize("edtText")
activity.AddView(edtText, 10, 10, 200, 50)

I hope this helps