Detect Return From Mobile Keyboard Without Native Field?

[Scott Rossi]

Thanks for checking Richard. How did you do your test?

Using a Nexus 5X here, so recent hardware.  I place a standard LiveCode
field a card (nothing native), and in the card script:

on returnInField
   answer millisecs()
end returnInField

When I press characters on the mobile keyboard, they appear in the field,
but when I press return, the cursor moves in the field but nothing else
happens.  The result is the same in both LC 7.1.4 and 8.0.1.  I must be
missing something?

To answer your question, focus has always been an issue for me on Android.
 I need to track characters and jump between multiple fields of a long
registration key, which works as expected on iOS but unfortunately not on
Android.  The use of standard LC fields is a workaround.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 7/14/16, 7:13 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin"
<use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

>Scott Rossi wrote:
>
> > On Android...  I have values in some standard fields (not native)
> > that I need to send to a handler.  How can I trap the return key
> > event on the mobile keyboard without having focus on a native field?
> >  Neither inputReturnKey or returnInField appears to get triggered.
>
>Testing here, the returnInField message goes to the target field as
>expected.
>
>Does your LC field have focus at that time?  If not try trapping
>returnKey in the card script (though that raises the question, how does
>one bring up the keyboard without an editable field having focus?).
>
>Also, just curious: given the difficulty of emulating mobile text
>editing conventions in LC fields, why not use a mobile-native field there?
>
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>  Fourth World Systems
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