Dude, i want to show the alert dialog box ONLY when user press any key
on the keyboard(softkeypad), if user dont press any key no alert box
will pop-up. Is your sol. provides this functionality??
On Jul 2, 3:42 pm, Saurav Mukherjee <to.saurav.mukher...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> thats pretty simple. run a thread with a while(no of chars < max){} . wen it
> exceeds, the while stops and then send a Message to a message handler to
> display the dialog box.
>
> u can get the number of chars in the thread by running a
> handler.post(Runnable) method.
>
> hope this help.
>
> cheers!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Chris <narendrasingh.bi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Let me tell you what i really want, actually i have to show an alert
> > box saying "max. limit reached" when the characters limit reaches 100,
> > so for that i need to sense the key events occured and show the alert
> > box. As of now i am able to detect computer's keys, emulator's
> > home,power,call,call_end,volume_up/down etc. keys. But im not able to
> > detect the alphabet keys of softkeyboard.I need a way to capture those
> > clicks.Anyways, thanx for ur prompt response.
>
> > On Jul 2, 3:16 pm, Saurav Mukherjee <to.saurav.mukher...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > well i have not tried capturing the keys from the soft keyboard, but u
> > cud
> > > try out a round abt method for checking the number of chars exceeded. u
> > cud
> > > run a thread tht keeps track of the text entered in the edit text box.
> > wen
> > > it exceeds, delete from the edit text box.
>
> > > if u have a better sol please share.
> > > cheers!
>
> > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Chris <narendrasingh.bi...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > > Hi every body
> > > > I am popping an alert box whenever an user exceeds 100 characters in a
> > > > text-box(EditTextPreference).
> > > > Now i am able to capture the hard keyboard's, i.e. computers's
> > > > keyboard, events, but i am not able to capture the sofkeyboard's key
> > > > events.
> > > > There are some keys like numbers, enter, delete etc. in the
> > > > softkeyboard which i am able to capture using onKey, but i am not able
> > > > to capture the alphabets and other keys.
> > > > i also tried setOnKeyboardActionListener, but didnt get the desired
> > > > results,( may be i was not using it correctly).
> > > > Can any one suggest how to capture the click of alphabets on the
> > > > sofkeyboard.
>
> > > > Thanks a lot..- Hide quoted text -
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