Cursor Placement in MobileControl
Ralph DiMola
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
Wed Mar 6 13:13:51 EST 2024
Dan,
Nice... thanks!
Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
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From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2024 11:15 AM
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: Dan Friedman
Subject: Re: Cursor Placement in MobileControl
Panos,
Thank you for the suggestion! That worked out well! For anyone
interested, here's the snippet for formatting a phone number as you type in
a mobile native field control:
//this assumes that the mobileControl type for Android is "multiline" and
the mobileSetKeyboardType has been set to "email"
on inputTextChanged
put mobileControlTarget() into pField
put mobileControlGet(pField,"text") into pText
if pField = "phoneNumber" then
put "" into fText
put numbersOnly(pText) into pText
if char 1 of pText = "1" then
put "" into fText
mobileControlSet "phoneNumber","text",fText
androidGoLastChar "phoneNumber",fText
put fText into dataEntered["phone"]
exit inputTextChanged
end if
if the number of chars in pText < 4 then
put pText into fText
mobileControlSet "phoneNumber","text",fText
androidGoLastChar "phoneNumber",fText
else
if (the number of chars in pText > 3) then
put "(" & char 1 to 3 of pText & ")" into char 1 to 3 of fText
put " " & char 4 to 6 of pText after fText
end if
if the number of chars in pText > 6 then
put "-" & char 7 to 10 of pText after fText
end if
mobileControlSet "phoneNumber","text",fText
androidGoLastChar "phoneNumber",fText
end if
end if
end inputTextChanged
function numbersOnly pNum
//returns only the numbers in pNum
put "" into fNum
repeat for each char c in pNum
if isNumber(c) then
put c after fNum
end if
end repeat
return fNum
end numbersOnly
on androidGoLastChar mControl,xText
if ("Android" is in the platform) then
mobileControlSet mControl,"selectedRange",(the number of chars in
xText+1,0)
end if
end androidGoLastChar
Thank you!
Dan Friedman
CEO, ClearVision Technologies, LLC
Voice: 909/484-2052
http://www.clearvisiontech.com
From: use-livecode <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com> on behalf of
panagiotis merakos via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 9:45 AM
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Cc: panagiotis merakos <merakosp at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cursor Placement in MobileControl Hello Dan,
I take it you are formatting the text in inputTextChanged?
Unfortunately yes, on Android calling
mobileControlSet "phoneNumber","text", pText
puts the cursor in the beginning of the text:
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24055
RE using the selectedRange with mobile native controls, I think this
property is supported only on multiline input fields. So I suppose you could
make the fields to be multiline and give it a try.
Kind regards,
Panos
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On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 18:53, Dan Friedman via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I am trying to create a field on mobile (iOS and Android) that will
> format a phone number as your type (client request). I am able to do
> this on iOS as the command: mobileControlSet
> "phoneNumber","text",pText puts the cursor AFTER the text so the user
> can simply continue typing. But, on Android, the cursor is placed at the
beginning of the text after the
> mobileControlSet command is called. Is there a way to set the position
of
> the cursor on a native mobile text field?
>
> I did notice that the Android Native Field widget has a selectedRange
> property. Can I use this property on a native Android control? And,
> can I set the selectedRange to "16,15" to set the cursor location, not
> select text?
>
> Why not just use the Android Native Field widget, you ask? I will if I
> have to. but I prefer to use the native control as it is
> cross-platform and I don't need to case out for which platform we're
> on. You would need to create the control and hide the widget for iOS
> and show the widget for Android. I'll also have to case out the
> setting and getting of the text as they have different methods. I'll do
this if I have to, but I'd rather
> have a single code set and not have to manage/update separate methods. I
> would use the standard LC field, but client wants the standard
> hold->popupMenu->paste command to work.
>
> Any thoughts or ideas?
>
> -Dan
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