Mobile text input mystery

[panagiotis merakos]

Hello Graham,

Oh, ignore my previous comment about mobileControlDo <inputField>, "focus",
as this bug affected Android only.

I'll try to reproduce the recipe here and see if I get the same problem.

Kind regards,
Panos
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 13:54, panagiotis merakos <merakosp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Graham,
>
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> *> but despite executing> >  mobileControlSet "FRadiusText",
> "keyboardType", "numeric">  mobileControlDo "FRadiusText", "focus"> >
> following what the  LC Dictionary says , I do not see the soft keyboard*
>
> This will not work in LC 9.5.1 - it is an old bug that is fixed in LC 9.6
> DP-3:
>
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/7259
>
> *>>nor does a subsequent*
>
> *>  mobileControlGet "FRadiusText", "text"> ever result in anything but
> empty even though I can see a text in the native field object.*
>
> Are you calling mobileControlGet "FRadiusText", "text" from the same
> handler that has created the mobile input field, or from a different one?
>
> Kind regards,
> Panos
> --
>
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 23:39, Graham Samuel via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> > From: Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com>
>> > Date: 22 April 2020 at 22:14:37 CEST
>> > To: Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com>
>> > Subject: Re:  Mobile text input mystery
>> >
>> > Thanks Mark. Although making the field opaque wasn’t enough, giving it
>> a black border worked and I can now see it. I can edit it with the mouse,
>> and I can even put something in it with
>> >
>> >  mobileControlSet "FRadiusText", "text", "1.0"
>> >
>> > but despite executing
>> >
>> >  mobileControlSet "FRadiusText", "keyboardType", "numeric"
>> >  mobileControlDo "FRadiusText", "focus"
>> >
>> > following what the  LC Dictionary says , I do not see the soft
>> keyboard, nor does a subsequent
>> >
>> >  mobileControlGet "FRadiusText", "text"
>> >
>> > ever result in anything but empty even though I can see a text in the
>> native field object.
>> >
>> > But I can’t keep asking questions. I’ll just tinker as usual and hope
>> to get a result.
>> >
>> > Thanks again
>> >
>> > Graham
>> >
>> >> On 22 Apr 2020, at 19:52, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On 2020-04-22 18:38, Graham Samuel wrote:
>> >>> Reading your response, Mark, I didn't feel so bad, since the LC
>> >>> Dictionary says for example about mobileControlSet
>> >>> syntax: mobileControlSet idOrName, PropertyName, value
>> >>> and later explains
>> >>> idOrName  - the id or name of the control
>> >>> So I therefore saw the two ways of referring to the control as
>> >>> apparently interchangeable.
>> >>
>> >> It is - apologies - the engine does look up both by id or name...
>> >>
>> >> Do you see something if you also set the 'text' property?
>> >>
>> >> There's also the 'borderStyle' property too.
>> >>
>> >> My hunch is that something is there, but the background color is the
>> same as the card, the border style is none and it has no content so it
>> looks like nothing is there?
>> >>
>> >> Warmest Regards,
>> >>
>> >> Mark.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Mark Waddingham ~ mark at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
>> >> LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
>> >
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