Do any of these attributes help? In particular I am thinking of the stateVisible or stateAlwaysVisible options: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#wsoft
Thanks, Justin Anderson MagouyaWare Developer http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:46 AM, dnkoutso <[email protected]> wrote: > Everything around the Android keyboard feels hacky. > > Try one of the following: > > 1) Set <requestFocus/> in your XML in the edittext. > 2) do a post such as et.post(new Runnable() { et.requestFocus() }} etc. > 3) do a post again but your use own code in your original post. > > Good luck. > > > On Monday, July 16, 2012 9:26:40 AM UTC-7, Simon Giddings wrote: >> >> Yes, I use this as well, but forgot to include it in the code I posted >> here. >> >> On Monday, 16 July 2012 18:06:41 UTC+2, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: >>> >>> Have you tried "et.requestFocus()" ? >>> >>> 2012/7/16 Simon Giddings >>> >>>> I have a simple dialog built with the compatibility libraries >>>> DialogFragment. >>>> It holds only >>>> >>>> 1. EditText >>>> 2. 2 buttons >>>> >>>> When the dialog is shown, the edit text control has the focus. >>>> At this point, I want to open the soft keyboard automatically. >>>> >>>> Here is what I am doing within the onCreateView method : >>>> EditText et; >>>> et = (EditText)v.findViewById(R.id.**txtAddress); >>>> Activity act = getActivity(); >>>> if(act != null) >>>> { >>>> InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)act.** >>>> getSystemService(Context.**INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); >>>> if(imm != null) >>>> imm.showSoftInput(et, InputMethodManager.SHOW_**FORCED); >>>> } >>>> >>>> Even though I get to the showSoftInput step with no problem, the >>>> keyboard is still not displayed. >>>> >>>> So, how can I correctly get the soft keyboard to be shown ? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Android Developers" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to android-developers@** >>>> googlegroups.com <[email protected]> >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> android-developers+**[email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/**group/android-developers?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en> >>> >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
