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
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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
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