Great question..unfortunaty i dnt knw d answer but m waiting for it.
On 24 Aug 2011 21:38, "bdk" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm showing the user a "Save as..." dialog to save files, and I'd like
> to disable a set of 'reserved characters' into a related EditText
> field.
>
> Let's say, something like:
>
> private static final String ReservedChars = "|\\?*<\":>+/'¥";
>
> (useful read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename )
>
> I have to be careful not to use chars not compatible with other
> filesystems like Windows (for instance: ? or " would make the file
> unusable in a Win* filesystem)
>
> Moreover, I don't want the user to be able to put sequences like "../"
> or "/foo/bar/filename.xxx" to access other paths.
>
> This also brings up another point: _all_ possible filepath separators
> should be forbidden (for instance, ¥ is the filepath separator on
> Japanese locale computers).
>
> So, what would be the most elegant solution to filter out these
> characters from user input?
> I'm also thinking about automatically replacing the forbidden chars
> with underscores, but it's not really user-friendly.
>
> I looked into
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/InputType.html
> but something like InputType.TYPE_CLASS_FILE_NAME is missing...
>
> TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_URI does not seem an option since apparently the
> soft keyboard ends up containing chars like: / * " ? ¥ and... smileys?
>
> For now I've tried with:
>
> EditText myEditText = new EditText(activity);
> myEditText.setSingleLine();
> myEditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT |
> InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_URI);
>
> to no luck.
>
> Now I'm reading across:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6626283/how-to-use-inputconnectionwrapper
> ...
>
> best
>
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