Trapping for Hide Keyboard on iOS?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/14/13 5:13 PM, JOHN PATTEN wrote:
> Hi All…
>
> Looking for some easy strategies for adding text to fields on an iOS
> app. The standard iOS keyboard appears on the screen at the same
> place each time. I was hoping to show a hidden field at the remaining
> screen real-estate above the keyboard. I was thinking of using the
> focus within a ui text field on screen to trigger the showing of the
> hidden field.
>
> To dismiss the field, I was hoping there was some way of trapping the
> user hiding the keyboard via the keyboard's hide keyboard key and
> then taking the text created in it and putting it into the original
> targeted field that generated the original focus command.
>
> Is this possible, or is there a reasonably accepted practice for
> entering text into fields in a LiveCode iOS app?

I don't quite follow what you want to do, but the card should be getting 
keyboardActivated and keyboardDeactivated messages when the keyboard is 
shown or dismissed.

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