Trapping for Hide Keyboard on iOS?

[JOHN PATTEN]

Thanks Jacqueline…

The keyboardactivated and keyboardDeactivated messages work well to show the generic field at the top of the card. But because I am activating the keyboard using a field at the bottom of my window, the focus stays within that bottom field and not in my newly displayed field at the top of the card.

The idea I was trying for was that if there were fields at the bottom of my card that the iOS keyboard hides when it is displayed, I could provide a generic field at the top of the card/window, set focus to that top field,  store the text in a variable when dismissing the keyboard and hiding the field. Then take the text stored in the variable and put it into the original field at the bottom of the card that started the whole process.

Unfortunately the minute I try to set focus on the generic top half field, the keyboard disappears.

I'll take a closer look at Gerry's suggestion and the native input control.

Thank you!


On Apr 14, 2013, at 5:48 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> 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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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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