Yet another iOS keyboard question

[Graham Samuel]

1. thanks very much Jacque. I forgot (if I ever knew) that this preference exists. There is too much to remember, I find.

2. Looks like it works, tho clunky. I have not yet found out if one can instantiate an iOS keyboard by script - if not, the latest iOS Release Notes on setting keyboard properties would seem redundant, so I'll keep looking.

Graham

1, On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:24:24 -0500, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> 
> On 4/6/12 3:01 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>> Thanks Chris, traversalOn was the answer. Doesn't show up on the
>> Property Inspector under its own name (I think it's called
>> 'Focusable' which is perhaps slightly more meaningful, but different)
> 
> The first thing I do whenever I need to reset my prefs is to turn off 
> the "descriptive" terms in the inspector and allow it to show the real 
> LiveCode terms instead. This also flips the tooltips so that hovering 
> shows the common meaning. The setting is the first one in the General 
> pane in prefs, "Property labels are: Name of LiveCode property".
> 
> I usually recommend that all newcomers change that default setting right 
> away too. It makes learning the language much easier because, as you 
> say, they can look up the terms they see in the inspector.

2. She also wrote, re the bug where an iOS keyboard appears with caps lock set:

> There was a workaround posted to the forums:
> <http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=6982&p=54482&hilit=ios+keyboard+shift#p54482>
> 
> I haven't tried it.