Comments on: Taking Control of the Flex Soft Keyboard

By: Indra

Indra — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:00:36 +0000

Hi,

When the soft keyboard pops up, my view doesn’t pan up so that the text i am typing is not visible. i have made the property needssoftkeyboard =”true”. still my view doesn’t pan up. can you help?

Thanks and regards,
Indra.

By: Dan Zen

Dan Zen — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:30:49 +0000

try resizeForSoftKeyboard=”false” in the s:ViewNavigatorApplication tag

By: Al

Al — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:24:31 +0000

Thanks for the post. Have you tried this with a loaded SWF? We created an SWF and then use SWFLoader in the Flex Mobile to load it to screen – that part works great. But, when you click (touch) on a TextField in the SWF, it brings up the softkeyboard and shrinks the entire SWF before covering it over with the keyboard? I would be keen to know how to make this stop happening. I’d like the softkeyboard to show up over the bottom portion of the SWF and have the SWF not change size at all if a TextField is clicked on. Any ideas?

By: steveonjava

steveonjava — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:08:44 +0000

Quick update… got a response on my bug already:
> will be fixed in 4.5.2

So it looks like you won’t have long to wait for number support in the soft keyboard.

By: steveonjava

steveonjava — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:03:52 +0000

Russ,

Unfortunately, the answer is no. This is a design limitation in the current soft keyboard implementation.

At least for the numeric case, the way I would expect it to work is like this:

This is similar to how the numeric keyboard responds from within the browser (although using a pattern property in that case).

I created an enhancement request for this. Please vote it up!
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-30865

By: Russ

Russ — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:43:06 +0000

Great article. Is there a way to have the number part of the keyboard to appear on focus?