Hi Jade,
did u get a clue on this as iam also stuck with a similar
problem..please reply back if this issue is resolved. I too need the
softkeyboard to get displayed without touching the edit box in my
dialog .
Regards,
Bhargavi
On Jun 2, 8:53 pm, jade wrote:
> We have a dialog box that includes an EditText field. We'd like the
> softkeyboard to already appear in the dialog when the dialog opens
> instead of the user first having to touch the EditText field. I've
> read other posts and tried to incorporate the suggestions but there's
> something that I'm missing.
>
> Here's my code from onStart (you'll notice that I'm calling several
> similar methods because from the documentation it's not clear :
>
> protected void onStart() {
> editText.setFocusable(true); // which of these should I call?
> editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
> editText.requestFocus();
> editText.dispatchKeyEvent(new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN,
> KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU));
> InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)
> this.context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
> imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
>
> //android.R.attr.windowSoftInputMode | stateAlwaysVisible);
> //http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr.html#windowSoft...
> imm.showSoftInputFromInputMethod
> (editText.getApplicationWindowToken(),
> InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
> super.onStart();
> }
>
> }
>
> It seems like I might be able to use this type of code
> programatically (due to our project constraints, we build this dialog
> programatically instead of via an xml file): //
> android.R.attr.windowSoftInputMode stateAlwaysVisible);
> //http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr.html#windowSoft...
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated!
>
> Jade
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