Dismissing ios keyboard

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Tue Apr 9 11:13:58 EDT 2013


Chris,
The phone and number keypads do not have return keys, and I don't seem to
be able to force them to have one.


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffield at icloud.com>wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Did you already try iphoneSetKeyboardReturnKey? If so, and this didn't
> work for setting the return key, then the only thing I can think of would
> be to try and set the focus to some other control using the focus command,
> forcing the field to lose focus and the keyboard to dismiss. Maybe even an
> off-screen or hidden control?
>
> Not having tried it myself, I'm not totally sure that'll work, but it's
> worth a try.
>
> Chris
>
>
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> On Apr 9, 2013, at 8:42 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
> > ios:
> > I have a single line field that I want to use with the numeric keypad.
> > That baby has no return key, so I created a separate button on the screen
> > to send the inputReturnkey message to it, because trying to send it a CR,
> > typing a return does not seem to do anything.
> >
> > The problem is that afterwards, the keyboard stays on the screen.  If
> there
> > was a keyboard with a return key on it on the screen, after hitting
> return
> > the keyboard would dismiss.
> >
> > Since tapping at some random location that doesn't have anything
> underneath
> > it will also cause the field to lose focus and the keyboard to dismiss, I
> > have tried click at x,y, where x,y is some empty space, but that doesn't
> > seem to work, either.
> >
> > How the heck do I get rid of this keyboard???
> >
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