Keyboard covers text field when typing

[ECNU4271]

Hi all,

When user wants to type, the keyboard goes up and it occupies half of the screen which will cover some text fields users may want to type.

That makes users blind on what they are typing.

Is there good way to solve problem?

I do think it's a common one so there should be someone who has asked this before.

Thanks!
Michael

[Simon]

Hi Michael,
Again it's get the effective working screenRect
Please look screenRect in the dictionary and then try it when the keyboard is up.

Simon

[ECNU4271]

Hi Michael,
Again it's get the effective working screenRect
Please look screenRect in the dictionary and then try it when the keyboard is up.

Simon

Hey, Simon

Thanks, I've looked up screenRect in the dictionary

I tried:

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on openCard
set the rect of this stack to line 9 of the working screenRects
end openCard

Somehow it doesn't work.
What will be the correct way to use the command anyway?

Michael

[Jellicle]

Ignore screenRects. You have to implement a way for the fields to move upwards when the keyboard is visible. There are a few ways of doing that depending on how many fields there are and how high they are. Can you tell us more about the layout of the fields on the screen?

Gerry

[ECNU4271]

Hi, Gerry,

There will be 6 fields up to down across the screen averagely.
The keyboard occupies about 40% of the screen.

Michael

[Simon]

errr Gerry,
effective working screenRects tells you how far you have to move the field.

Simon

[Simon]

And Micheal,
You can't set the screenRect on mobile.

Simon

[ECNU4271]

And Micheal,
You can't set the screenRect on mobile.

Simon

Then what should I do?

Any easy way to do it? Because I only have little time before Deadline and if it doesn't work I would just leave it there as future improvement.

Michael

[Simon]

Well if you have the effective blah blah and you group your field into a scrolling group you can set the vScroll of the group.
Fun!

Simon

[ECNU4271]

Well if you have the effective blah blah and you group your field into a scrolling group you can set the vScroll of the group.
Fun!

Simon

Well, Simon...
It seems I am not able to do that....
Could you please teach or show me to some extent?

Thank you,
Michael

[Simon]

Maybe I should have done this:

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get the effective working screenRect
answer it

Put that into 1 of your fields, I see you know textChanged so put it in that.
Also add a button that you can use when the keyboard is not showing and put the code into that. See the difference?

Simon

[ECNU4271]

sorry Simon, I was busying coding other functions of my app and forgetting you're waiting... Sorry!!

Let me try it now

[Simon]

Actually I'm not waiting for you.
I don't work here.

Simon

[Jellicle]

Maybe I should have done this:

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get the effective working screenRect
answer it

Putting that in a button on a card where the keyboard is used with native input controls I get "0,40,640,920" when it's visible, and "0,40,640,1136" when it isn't (for an iPhone 5 screen).

Is that the expected behaviour? If so...it's wrong The rect of the area still visible above the keyboard is smaller than "0,40,640,920"

Gerry

[Simon]

Well that's cool that you could measure it!
Are you adding the title bar?

Simon