Android Question Test string and prevent emoticons

[Stephen A Wolfe]

I'm writing my first B4A app and noticed one of my text fields allow me to enter emoticons, though the InputType is set to TEXT. What do I need to do to verify the string is text only? For my purposes, English only will work fine. I have been searching the forums but not finding exactly what I need.

Thanks in advance

 

[mangojack]

Possibly set a filter for your edit text .. see here Alpha-Numeric input filter .. .

It requires inclusion of IME lib.

 

[Stephen A Wolfe]

Thanks for the quick response. I looked over that link and it looks like I should use the line of code:

IME.SetCustomFilter(MainSearchString.INPUT_TYPE_TEXT, "0123456789_ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")

But I get an error undeclared variable IME. Using something like Private IME As String does not seem to fix it.

 

[Stephen A Wolfe]

Possibly set a filter for your edit text .. see here Alpha-Numeric input filter .. .

It requires inclusion of IME lib.

Thank you. I believe you helped me solve this. I figured out I need to declare it like this:

    Private IME1 As IME

Then call IME1....