Hi I'm showing the user a "Save as..." dialog to save files, and I'd like to disable a set of 'reserved characters' into a related EditText field.
Let's say, something like: private static final String ReservedChars = "|\\?*<\":>+/'¥"; (useful read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename ) I have to be careful not to use chars not compatible with other filesystems like Windows (for instance: ? or " would make the file unusable in a Win* filesystem) Moreover, I don't want the user to be able to put sequences like "../" or "/foo/bar/filename.xxx" to access other paths. This also brings up another point: _all_ possible filepath separators should be forbidden (for instance, ¥ is the filepath separator on Japanese locale computers). So, what would be the most elegant solution to filter out these characters from user input? I'm also thinking about automatically replacing the forbidden chars with underscores, but it's not really user-friendly. I looked into http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/InputType.html but something like InputType.TYPE_CLASS_FILE_NAME is missing... TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_URI does not seem an option since apparently the soft keyboard ends up containing chars like: / * " ? ¥ and... smileys? For now I've tried with: EditText myEditText = new EditText(activity); myEditText.setSingleLine(); myEditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_URI); to no luck. Now I'm reading across: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6626283/how-to-use-inputconnectionwrapper ... best -- Mathieu -- 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
