Mobile Keyboard

[Paul Hibbert]

Try setting the traversalOn to false rather than using lockText, I seem to remember that worked for the last iOS app that I made (quite a while ago now), I’m sure it has been discussed here, probably several years ago, so  I’m amazes that I remembered it. :-)

I tested the script below in the simulator on a card with 5 fields and it worked as expected.

CODE:

local sFields

on preOpenCard
   put the number of fields on this card into sFields
      repeat with x = 1 to sFields
      	set the traversalOn of fld x to false	
   end repeat
end preOpenCard

on openCard
## openCard stuff here
	send "unlockAllFields" to this card in 2 ticks ## Last line of the openCard handler
end openCard

on unlockAllFields
   repeat with x = 1 to sFields
      set the traversalOn of fld x to true
   end repeat
end unlockAllFields

END CODE

Best of luck.

Paul



> On Jun 24, 2020, at 08:35, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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