I do see where you are coming from though. I feel the exact same way about 
people who join sects or religions like Scientology. It almost seems that human 
stupidity has no limits. 

On Jun 24, 2009, at 2:46 PM, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote:


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.




      

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