Any way to inhibit on-screen keyboard ?

[paulsr]

Greetings:

If I have a card with text entry fields, the on-screen keyboard seems to pop-up when the card loads.

Is there some way to inhibit this behavior, such that the keyboard only appears when the user taps inside a text entry area?

Many tkx...

--paul

[dave_probertGA6e24]

Hi,

try putting a

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focus on nothing

in the preopencard or opencard handler. That might work.

Cheers,
Dave

[paulsr]

Thanks Dave. I tried both places, but it didn't help.

Good advice tho for a Saturday evening ... a few beers and focus on nothing!

--paul

[Mark]

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on preOpenCard
  repeat with x = 1 to number of fields
    set the lockText of fld x to true
    set the traversalOn of fld x to false
  end repeat
  send "initiateCard" to me in 0 millisecs
end preOpenCard

on initiateCard
   repeat with x = 1 to number of fields
   set the lockText of fld x to false
    set the traversalOn of fld x to true
  end repeat
end initiateCard

Kind regards,

Mark

[paulsr]

Thank you Mark. That's what I needed. But tell me...

(yes, this is a bit off topic)

HOW did you know that? I'm often amazed by some of the answers I get in the forum. Does everyone treat the LC Dictionary as their favorite bedtime reading?

I had googled. I had searched the forum. And without asking for help, I don't think I would ever have found the answer.

Plowing thru the dictionary one command at a time, and trying to understand what each one does, seems to be the only way to gain a full working knowledge of LC. Or am I missing something?

--paul

[jacque]

HOW did you know that? I'm often amazed by some of the answers I get in the forum. Does everyone treat the LC Dictionary as their favorite bedtime reading?

I think some people probably do. But mostly it's just having been around long enough to have picked up all the nuances. This forum is, relatively speaking, fairly new. Before it was set up, the discussion took place exclusively on the mailing list. And that is still where most of it goes on, it's very active. Most of the professional developers are there, and some (many?) of them never read these forums. I didn't for years, I don't like a web interface very much. The list tends to discuss more advanced issues, even though they are very responsive to new users, just because that's the type of people who tend to hang out there. But even though any question is welcome and no question is too basic, new users tended to be a little intimidated sometimes. The forums solved that too.

If you'd like a double dose of LiveCode, join the mailing list. You can do that here:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode/

If you want to search the years and years of valuable info from that list, it is archived on both nabble and gmane. So in addition to searching the forums, search either of these places (they are duplicates, so you only need to choose the one you like best):

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user
http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/

You will almost always find the answer to any question in the list archives.

[paulsr]

Thank you for taking the time to reply Jacqueline.

After a few months of coding, I was starting to feel I should be beyond the newbie stage, but I keep hitting roadblocks that only others can solve for me.

So, your message is that I need to keep coding, keep learning, keep asking questions, and in a year or three I might reach the semi-expert stage. Hmm, okay.

I confess I was only vaguely aware of the mailing list, and had assumed it was just a mirror of the forum. Now that I know otherwise, for sure, I will sign up.

The forum is a nice place though. Even the stupidest and naïvest question seems to get a polite and helpful response. That's rare. Most forums just ignore newbies, or they provide terse and unhelpful responses, that basically say, "go away, we're experts."

Okay, back to coding and learning...

--paul

[jacque]

The mailing list is as friendly as the forums. It's a wonderful group, and many of the people you know from here are on both. You'll be right at home.

[Mag]

I had googled. I had searched the forum. And without asking for help, I don't think I would ever have found the answer.

I Paul, I often find myself doing your same considerations . One thing I'm learning is that LiveCode is simple and straightforward. With this in mind, you already get a part of answers for your everyday coding. So, for example, backing to the topic, you just need to know that fields which have their lockText property set to true will not let a keyboard to be used (and then shown in mobile).