Thanks! You have a gift to wake me up from stupidity :). I actually
implemented everything correctly, except that I've made the uber obvious
mistake to call the IM in the onCreate() function of the activity. I guess I
should have used at least onWindowFocusChanged(). Sorry for wasting your
time.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com>wrote:
> Do the same thing TextView does.
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Andrei Bucur <andrei.bu...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>> AbsListView implements onCreateInputConnection using an EditText, subclass
>> of TextView :). My question is how should a custom View implement those
>> methods so one can display the virtual keyboard.
>> Andrei.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:23 PM, greg <sep...@eduneer.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I put the following menu option in my application to display the
>>> keyboard:
>>>
>>> case R.id.keyboard:
>>> Toast.makeText(this, "Back button removes keyboard.",
>>> Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
>>> InputMethodManager imm =
>>> (InputMethodManager)getSystemService
>>> (Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
>>> imm.showSoftInput(mListView,
>>> InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
>>> return true;
>>>
>>> - - -
>>>
>>> I hope that helps.
>>>
>>> - Greg
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 14, 8:58 am, loctarar <andrei.bu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hello!
>>> >
>>> > I need help with showing the integrated virtual keyboard on-screen. I
>>> > extended a View class and I implemented these two methods (most of it
>>> > is just stub code; for now I only want to display the keyboard):
>>> > @Override
>>> > public InputConnection onCreateInputConnection (EditorInfo
>>> outAttrs)
>>> > {
>>> > BaseInputConnection fic = new BaseInputConnection(this,
>>> true);
>>> >
>>> > outAttrs.actionLabel = null;
>>> > outAttrs.hintText = "Insert the test text";
>>> > outAttrs.initialCapsMode = 0;
>>> > outAttrs.initialSelEnd = outAttrs.initialSelStart = -1;
>>> > outAttrs.label = "Test text";
>>> > outAttrs.inputType = InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER |
>>> > InputType.TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_DECIMAL;
>>> > outAttrs.imeOptions = EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE;
>>> >
>>> > return fic;
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > @Override
>>> > public boolean onCheckIsTextEditor() {
>>> > return true;
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > In the onCreate method of my activity I have :
>>> >
>>> > InputMethodManager imm =
>>> (InputMethodManager)this.getSystemService
>>> > (Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
>>> > imm.showInputMethodPicker();
>>> >
>>> > imm.showSoftInput(editor, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
>>> >
>>> > Where editor is an instance of my View. I noticed in the debugger that
>>> > my onCreateInputConnection() is executed but after that the keyboard
>>> > is not displayed on the screen.
>>> > Using the TextView widtget and it's subclasses is not an option.
>>> >
>>> > Thank you!
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> hack...@android.com
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such
> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
> answer them.
>
>
> >
>
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