I think he said he had a special soft keyboard that was to be used for this field. Sounds like he doesn't want to go through the whole hassle of creating an entire soft keyboard, nor creating all the caret- position and backspace-handling code necessary to reinvent EditView. I don't know the actual situation but imagine a Scrabble tile rack that only let you enter the letters in your rack, plus a backspace and DONE key.
On Feb 6, 2:26 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > Can I first ask, what are you trying to accomplish? What is the purpose of > having an editable text view if the user can't actually put text into it? > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:29 AM, zenperttu <perttu.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi! > > > I would like a way to turn off showing the current soft keyboard for > > an EditText. I have a custom View that provides the soft input needed > > for an EditText, so on every occasion (on click, on focus change, on > > touch...) when by default the soft keyboard would be shown, I want it > > NOT to be shown. > > > The closest things I found are > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > > and > > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109022/how-to-close-hide-the-andr... > > > and > > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109022/how-to-close-hide-the-andr... > > > These however do not work for me. > > > The solution suggested in the latter > > > InputMethodManager imm = > > (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); > > imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getWindowToken(), 0); > > > for example works only after the EditText has been selected by the > > user and is already accepting input and so the soft keyboard is > > already on the screen. I want it never to appear. > > > I can try to implicitly set all of the onFocusChangeListener, > > onTouchListener, onClickListener to do > > > public void onSomeActionListener(View v) { > > > InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) > > context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); > > if (imm.isActive(v)) { > > imm.toggleSoftInput(0,0); > > } > > } > > > However, this is really not a nice solution because > > > 1) the soft keyboard is first called and shown so that it briefly > > flashes on the screen before disappearing > > > 2) I can't by trial and error try to find all the different ways user > > could cause soft keyboard to be shown and override all corresponding > > methods > > > Thanks for your help! > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
