Dwass, dont know if this helps, but I finally got it to work reliably
for my particular needs.
I have a dialog with a single edit, and I wanted to softkeyboard to
automatically show when the dialog was opened, and be closed when the
dialog was closed. In other words, identical behaviour to the
EditTextPreference when used in a PreferenceScreen.
In my OnCreate() I have:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)
SingleEditDialog.this.getContext().getSystemService
(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput
(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);
Which shows the keyboard when the dialog is opened. Like you, I had
trouble getting the thing to hide when I close the dialog, I tried
calling toggleSoftInput again but no amount of changing the settings
seems to work. It is not entirely clear what is going on here, and I
am not sure why there is not a .HIDE_FORCED option. It is my app, why
can't I control when the keyboard is shown?
In the end, as I only had one edit field, I was able to use another
method to hide it,
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(singleedittext.getWindowToken(),
0);
where singleedittext is my EditText view.
Incidentally, there doesn't appear to be a corresponding
showSoftInputForWindow() call, though, which is again odd.
Anyway, it now works perfectly. Hope this helps someone else!
On Sep 22, 4:06 pm, dwass <dw...@sharpmind.de> wrote:
> Hi Dianne,
>
> You say that the G1 has akeyboardand so the IME is not shown by
> default. I don't understand that statement. Yes, the G1 has akeyboard, but it
> isn't always OPEN. Especially if the device is in
> portrait mode, thekeyboardis probably NEVER open. The device should
> be smart enough so that it opens thekeyboardif there is nokeyboard
> open. Either that, or we need a way to show thekeyboardwhen we want
> to (and hide it again when we don't).
>
> My current problem is this: When I start an activity, the first
> EditText field in the layout is focused automatically, but the softkeyboardis
> not automatically shown. The user must either click (with
> trackball) or touch the field to open the softkeyboard. IMHO the
> developer should be able to say that he wants thekeyboardshown at
> this point.
>
> Any suggestions? I've tried all the "force showkeyboard" suggestions
> and they sometimes do work, but usually you get stuck with thekeyboardbeing
> shown after you leave the field and this causes more
> problems that it solves.
>
> Thanks,
> -DWass
>
>
>
> > On Sep 19, 8:42 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
>
> > > The G1 has akeyboard, so it works as I said -- the IME is not shown by
> > > default. This is a policy decision of the platform.
>
> > > On a myTouch, since it doesn't have akeyboard, the IME will be shown by
> > > default in various cases (for example when you enter the edit contacts
> > > screen) when the app has indicated that is desired with the input options.
>
> > > --
> > > Dianne Hackborn
> > > Android framework engineer- Hide quoted text -
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