Hi, I'm definitely not an expert on the softKeyboard, but my understanding is that a lot of limitations result from the Adobe AIR runtime and not the Flex code itself. Have you tried AS-only projects to see if they work better or worse?
On 9/22/14 2:14 AM, "tristan" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >I want to explain you my multiple problems with keyboards on Apache Flex >13.0 & AIR 14.0 version. > >We make an AIR application with apache Flex, we are targeting Android, >iOS >and Windows (not RT but windows PRO with touch-screen). > >There are multiple cases: >1) softKeyBoard does not resize the view if you are using "direct" render >mode on both iOS and android with 'Pan' mode(depends of the skin used): >https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34517 >=> we would like to use "direct" mode for performance > >2) SoftKeyBoard does not appears on Windows 8 PRO and Windows 8.1 PRO >(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34542 ) >=> Today, we have to launch manually the file 'tapTip.exe' on Windows only >to show a keyBoard, but this is not native, not clear, and the screen is >not >resizing > >3) Cursor is not showed on iOS when not showing the native keyBoard >(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33679) >=> It is impossible for the user to select something on the textInput in >this case > >4) Events are not fired correctly on TextInput on iOS >(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34178) >=> we can't migrate with stageTextInputSkin and choose the mode to show it >(numeric, phone ...) > >5) preventDefault() is not working on iOS and Android, the keayboard >appears >(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34179) >=> same that for the 4) > > >I know all these bugs are mine, but I'm surprised that nobody else >encountered the same problems. We want to use Flex for our project, and >Direct mode for performance, but when you read all above, you realize that >it's difficult tu use correctly spark TextInput on multiple platforms > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Working-with-softKeyBoard-i >s-not-compatible-with-all-platform-targeting-by-air-tp8087.html >Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
