The other way, which I have used for some time, is to group the field (either in a group by itself, or including all the fields you don't want to automatically get focused) then set the group's traversalOn to false.
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham [email protected] http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Mar 14, 2012, at 4:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/14/12 2:09 PM, Michael Doub wrote: >> Is there a way to detect that the user has closed the keyboard on >> Android? >> >> Maybe someone can point out an appropriate technique to solve my >> problem. I have a card with one editable field on it. When I go to >> that card currently the focus immediately go to that field and the >> keyboard pops up. I would like the field to remain editable, but >> only if it is selected by the user. I would like to be notified upon >> completion. > > It's an ancient problem that dates back to the origins of the engine. The > first object with traversalOn will get the focus. On Windows, where buttons > can be focused, the solution is to set a button to a lower layer than the > first field. On Mac, and apparently mobile (I haven't checked,) that doesn't > work. > > One workaround is to add a short handler that removes the focus and send it > from a preOpenCard. It doesn't trigger right if you just add "focus on > nothing" to a pre- or openCard handler. > > on preOpenCard > send "noSelect" to me in 1 > end preOpenCard > > on noSelect > focus on nothing > end noSelect > > I haven't tried this on mobile yet, but that's how I do it in desktop apps. > On mobile the keyboard might pop up and disappear if the timing isn't right. > Let us know. > > Another way to handle it is to set the field's traversalOn to false in > preOpenCard and then set it back to true on openCard. I've had mixed results > with that method, but you can try it: > > on preOpenCard > set the traversalOn of fld 1 to false > end preOpenCard > > on openCard > set the traversalOn of fld 1 to true > end openCard > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
