Mobile Keyboard

[Ralph DiMola]

If found that you need to enclose the (set the lockText of fld "thisDarnField" to false) with lock/unlock messages or the keyboard will pop up when the doUnlockTheField handler is run. Probably because I do a lot in the passed open card message path I also needed to send the message in 100 ticks.

Works great now.
Thanks!

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Friedman [mailto:dan at clearvisiontech.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 7:54 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: Ralph DiMola
Subject: Re: Mobile Keyboard

Ralph,

I had this same issue on a project.  The problem is when the card/stack opens, LiveCode want to activate the first typable field it finds.  If my old memory is correct, what I did was this:

on preOpenCard
	set the lockText of fld "thisDarnField" to true	
end preOpenCard

on openCard
	send "doUnlockTheField" to this card in 1 tick //don't send this until everything is done loading (you could probably send this in the preOpenCard too) end openCard

on doUnlockTheField
	set the lockText of fld "thisDarnField" to false end doUnlockTheField


Hope that helps and I hope it works!   I hope my cobweb-ridden brain remembers this correctly!

-Dan


On 6/23/20, 3:40 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Ralph DiMola via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

    I have a card with one focusable input field.
    How can I keep the keyboard from opening until the user taps into the field?

    I tried putting "focus on nothing"s in various places such as preopencard
    and opencard with no success?

    I think this has been discussed before. Was there ever a solution for both
    iOS and Android?

    Thanks

    Ralph DiMola
    IT Director
    Evergreen Information Services
    rdimola at evergreeninfo.net



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