Bug? KITKAT backspace bug

wimpie3

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• May 7, 2014

• #1

It seems that when you press the backspace key on the virtual keyboard rapidly to erase an existing text in a textfield, Activity_KeyPress is raised for no reason at all after about 5 keypresses. This behavior does not exist on previous Android versions. Is there a known workaround?

 

Erel

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• May 7, 2014

• #2

I'm unable to reproduce it. Tried with this code:

B4X:

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
   Dim et As EditText
   et.Initialize("")
   Activity.AddView(et, 0, 0, 200dip, 100dip)
End Sub

Sub Activity_KeyPress (KeyCode As Int) As Boolean
   Log(KeyCode)
   Return True
End Sub

Note that the events are raised from the OS.

 

wimpie3

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• May 7, 2014

• #3

I get 67's all over the place in the log window... FYI, I'm running on a Nexus 5 with Android 4.4.2

 

wimpie3

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• May 7, 2014

• #4

But let's agree on the fact that this is most probably not a B4A bug, but something strange in Kitkat that can be handled without any problem in B4A's KeyPress procedure.