I had this same problem a couple weeks back. I'm not addressing any of the remaining discussion in this thread regarding Activity constructors, resetting of content, etc..
But i did have input(type=text) and textareas that I simply could not focus on via touch..As a Dev i readily ignored it, using trackball, until QA bugged me about it :) ** I found webview.requestFocusFromTouch() did the trick very nicely ** Hope that helps On Mar 15, 6:30 pm, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a very very strange problem with input and textarea html > tags in a WebView. Basically they never seem to gain input focus with the > virtual keybaord. The code for this is trivial: > > WebView w = new WebView (this); > w.loadData("<html><body>fooz <input></body></html>", "text/html", "utf8"); > setContentView (w); > > which shows a single input box. There is now way just tapping around the > screen to get it to accept input. > > Strangely, if I use my trackball on my G1 to select the field, I can > eventually > get focus and type in it. For trackball-less things like the N1, that > doesn't > help though. > > I've seen some posts about this, but it doesn't seem that there were any > solutions or feedback. > > Mike -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
