Are you sure focus went to the sprite? Make sure stage.focus is set and you got FOCUS_IN and not FOCUS_OUT (and can get keyboard events).
It might be that there is a difference in the UIA in the player. Did you link in the Flex accessibility code for the Spark components? On 9/19/12 1:37 AM, "Wouter Schreuders" <wschreud...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Alex I'm using Flex SDK 4.5A (problem also occurs on 4.6) The flash player is version 11.3.372.94 on windows 8 64 bit and as far as I know IE have gone the same route as flash and rolled their own version of the flash player inside the browser. Metro officially supports flash sites that comply with their conditions as set out here ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/jj193557%28v=vs.85%29.aspx ) Microsoft's official policy on invoking the keyboard is that it must be under the control of the user and can not be problematically invoked. The way to invoke the keyboard is one of the following from this page ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465404.aspx ) : Accessibility properties from UI Automation (UIA) User tap Focus changes from their docs : UI Automation is the mechanism through which developers communicate whether or not a particular UI element can receive text input. You must ensure that the appropriate accessibility properties are set in your apps so that the touch keyboard will know to appear when focus lands on a specific UI element. Their own windows provided controls do this automatically otherwise inside of your html you need to add the following: <div contentEditable="true" role="textbox"> So that's how it works in html. I haven't found any documentation of help on forums explaining how they decide when to bring up the keyboard in a flash situation. As you suggested I made an AS only site to see what works and what doesn't. a normal sprite doesn't invoke the keyboard, neither does a sprite with a mouse click listener. A normal textField doesn't invoke the keyboard but a textfield with type set to TextFieldType.INPUT does invoke the keyboard (which makes sense) So somehow microsoft (I'm guessing) are inside of flash detecting what kind of component recieved focus and if it's a editable textfield then it does bring up the keyboard. The intriguing thing is that for some reason when a spark textInput / RichEditableText is set to displayAsPassword = true it DOES bring up the keyboard so perhaps somewhere in the framework setting that flag causes the component to somehow be perceived as a input component which quite strange to me since I can't see why setting that condition would make any difference. Here's my test code: package { import flash.display.Graphics; import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.display.StageAlign; import flash.display.StageQuality; import flash.display.StageScaleMode; import flash.events.Event; import flash.events.MouseEvent; import flash.text.TextField; import flash.text.TextFieldType; public class CleanAsProject extends Sprite { public function CleanAsProject() { stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE; //this stuff is required since I'm working in flash builder and if you you don't put it in your graphics scale is whack stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT; stage.quality = StageQuality.HIGH; init(); } private function init():void { drawSprite(); // Does not invoke Metro soft Keyboard drawSpriteWithEventHandler(); // Does not invoke Metro soft Keyboard drawTextField(); // Does not invoke Metro soft Keyboard drawInputTextField(); // successfully invokes Metro soft Keyboard } private function drawTextField():void { var textField:TextField = new TextField; addChild(textField); textField.x = 100; textField.y = 300; textField.height = 50; textField.text = 'click me'; } private function drawInputTextField():void { var textField:TextField = new TextField; addChild(textField); textField.x = 100; textField.y = 350; textField.height = 50; textField.text = 'input text into me'; textField.type = TextFieldType.INPUT; textField.background = true; } private function drawSpriteWithEventHandler():void { var textInputEH:Sprite = new Sprite(); textInputEH.x = 100; textInputEH.y = 200; var g:Graphics = textInputEH.graphics; g.beginFill(0x44ff00, 1); g.drawRect(0,0,200,80); g.endFill(); addChild(textInputEH); textInputEH.buttonMode = true; textInputEH.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function (event:MouseEvent):void { trace(event.currentTarget); } ); } private function drawSprite():void { var textInput:Sprite = new Sprite(); textInput.x = 100; textInput.y = 100; var g:Graphics = textInput.graphics; g.beginFill(0xff9900, 1); g.drawRect(0,0,200,80); g.endFill(); addChild(textInput); } } } On 19 September 2012 07:59, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: I would break it down to an AS-only test where you set focus to a Sprite and see if you get the keyboard. Which version of player are you using? Is metro officially supported? On 9/18/12 1:11 PM, "Wouter Schreuders" <wschreud...@gmail.com <http://wschreud...@gmail.com> > wrote: Hi Alex The problem occurs with the spark RichEditableText therefore also textInput (not for MX:textInput). I set up a little test inside of windows 8 metro where traced out all the events for both a normal textInput and a textInput with displayAsPassword="true" and they are firing identical events. The one with displayAsPassword="true" invokes the keyboard perfectly everytime. I've also extended the RichEditableText class and overwritten some of the methods that are dependant on the displayAsPassword flag to see if that makes any difference but no luck. On 18 September 2012 21:50, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com <http://aha...@adobe.com> > wrote: Spark or MX? If Spark, then maybe they can’t handle non-TextFields getting focus? On 9/17/12 8:33 AM, "Wouter Schreuders" <wschreud...@gmail.com <http://wschreud...@gmail.com> <http://wschreud...@gmail.com> > wrote: Hi All I'm busy testing our application in the windows 8 store app browser and I've noticed that the keyboard automatically appears when you click on a flash text input but not when you click on a flex text input. I'm guessing that MS are doing some kind of event detection which invokes the onscreen keyboard but that they didn't do the same thing for flex text inputs. I've also checked it seems that one cannot invoke the keyboard manually with javascript. Has anyone run into this problem before and found a solution? I've also noticed that it DOES bring up the keyboard if you have set displayAsPassword="true" for some reason. Has anyone got any idea why this is happening and how I can work around/solve it? Thanks Wouter -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
