oddEditText behaviour

[sorex]

Hello,

I'm having a strange issue here :BangHead:

here is what I did...

I opened an existing layout that was simular to what I needed
(a label, editbox, reset button and submit button) and saved it
with a different name.

I renamed the views so that they don't conflict with the other layout

I changed the design script aswell to match the new names

when I start the app all looks fine but when I click the edit box
and type just 1 letter some kind of search window appears above the keyboard
and lists contacts and other stuff containing that letter.

when I go to the layout(/tab) where I copied it from it still behaves normal.

any idea what could have triggered this search view? (I don't have any events on the editbox in my code)

 

[Erel]

Maybe you have added an AutoCompleteEditText? Can you post a screenshot?

 

[sorex]

I am preparing an example for you.

from what I can see is that the behaviour happends when I used progressdialogshow/hide.

if I comment those lines it works fine.

 

[sorex]

I have attached an example and marked the line that caused the bug...

 

[NJDude]

I have tried your sample on 2 different devices, commenting and uncommenting that line, I don't see anything like you described.

Are you testing your code on a real device? what Android version?

 

[sorex]

on my i5800 with 2.2 on it.

 

[sorex]

I could add my own loader thingy but I just want to know why it bugs here.

 

[Erel]

Can you post a screenshot?

 

[sorex]

Here you go...

I rebooted my phone but the problem still remains.

I tried it via the emulator and OS 4.1 and there it works normal,
I couldn't run the emulator in 2.2 as I only got a black screen after waiting for more than half an hour.

 

[sorex]

I don't get it...

in some case tapping on keys doesn't even add text to the textbox and pressing "Done" doesn't react at all.

 

[sorex]

I seem to have bypassed the problem.

If I do

boxPass.visible=false
ProgressDialogShow(ptitle)

and set it visible again when loading is done then it works fine

using boxPass.enable=false only still fails

still a bizar thing if you ask me.

 

[Roger Garstang]

You sure you aren't hitting the Search Button or perhaps you have a bad button area? A lot of Samsung phones have issues with random button presses down there...usually the search button. That 3rd image you show isn't your text box or even in the same place...it is a search box that looks like it is searching for applications.

 

[sorex]

Hello Roger,

well, the app starts and

step/image 1 a fake loader starts with that progress icon

step/image 2 I click on the textfield

step/image 3 is the keyboard I got

If I got rid of that progress "layer" it works fine, if I hide the textfield and set it back it works fine aswell.

It seems that something in that loader messes something up somehow when the textbox is stil visible.