Android Question Modified Edittext for HH:mm entry

[harinder]

How can I modify entry into edittext so that I can allow entry of 3000 hrs and 50 mins to be entered as 3000:50. To be more precise, hours on left side of colon can be any positive number >=0, but minutes on right side of colon < 60.

 

[Computersmith64]

There might be something here that will help you: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/InputType

You would implement it something like (you need to include the IME library in your project):

Private ime as IME
ime.SetCustomFilter([edittext], [input type], [accepted characters])

- Colin.

 

[Mahares]

Maybe something like this using cross platform views

Private edt As EditText   
    Private InputTemplate As B4XInputTemplate    'need XUI Views Lib
    Private XUI As XUI   'need XUI lib
    Private Dialog As B4XDialog
    Private Base As B4XView

InputTemplate.Initialize
    Base = Activity
    Dialog.Initialize (Base)
    InputTemplate.lblTitle.Text = "Enter time (HHHH:MM)"  'any number of hours
    InputTemplate.RegexPattern = "([0-9]+):[0-5][0-9]$"
    Wait For (Dialog.ShowTemplate(InputTemplate, "OK", "", "CANCEL")) Complete (Result As Int)
    If Result = XUI.DialogResponse_Positive Then
        edt.Text = InputTemplate.Text
    End If

 

[harinder]

Maybe something like this using cross platform views

Private edt As EditText  
    Private InputTemplate As B4XInputTemplate    'need XUI Views Lib
    Private XUI As XUI   'need XUI lib
    Private Dialog As B4XDialog
    Private Base As B4XView

InputTemplate.Initialize
    Base = Activity
    Dialog.Initialize (Base)
    InputTemplate.lblTitle.Text = "Enter time (HHHH:MM)"  'any number of hours
    InputTemplate.RegexPattern = "([0-9]+):[0-5][0-9]$"
    Wait For (Dialog.ShowTemplate(InputTemplate, "OK", "", "CANCEL")) Complete (Result As Int)
    If Result = XUI.DialogResponse_Positive Then
        edt.Text = InputTemplate.Text
    End If

Wonderful..So Regex does the trick..Exactly what I was looking for..