If you don't want it to show up, don't use input fields. If you use input fields, you better damned well allow the user to input data into them!
What I am saying is basically that there is no reason for you to forcibly suppress the keyboard. On Jun 23, 9:13 pm, Alex B <[email protected]> wrote: > Google recently released Android 1.5, adding a significant feature - > the soft keyboard - yet they have not provided any information on how > to *properly* suppress it. Until 1.5, we've been dealing with the > physical keyboard, and custom onscreen buttons. As of 1.5, an onscreen > keyboard appears when an input field is focused/touched. > > It seems to me that the introduction of such a major UI feature should > come with ample documentation describing how to deal with it... > particularly, how to suppress it. Until now, I have not seen any > official documentation about this. There has been some discussion on > the dev list, but only hacks have been presented. Indeed, some of the > hacks do suppress the keyboard, but they come with the loss of certain > behaviour - functional or aesthetic. > > What is needed, is a *clean* way of suppressing the keyboard. At the > very least, on a field-by-field basis... but best would be on an > activity or app basis. Actually, ideally, all three methods should be > presented. > > Personally, I don't want the soft keyboard to show up *anywhere* > within my app, regardless of activity or EditText text input field. If > you know how to do this, or if you know how to get the Android team's > attention, please help. > > Thank you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
