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Samuele
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show keyboard

Post by Samuele » Tue Nov 23, 2021 12:23 pm

hi, on my mobile app , i can't type into a text entry field because the phone doesn't show the keyboard, any ideas on how make it show?
thanks!
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Re: show keyboard

Post by Klaus » Tue Nov 23, 2021 12:25 pm

Once a field is "opened" (you click/tap into it), the keyboard should pop up automatically.
And this is not the case in your stack(s)?
Any scripts involved?

Samuele
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Re: show keyboard

Post by Samuele » Wed Nov 24, 2021 4:35 pm

in my mobile app when i click on the text entry field, only the firs time works but then if i go back "in android phone " and click on the field a second time the keyboard doesn't pop up.
thanks!
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Re: show keyboard

Post by Klaus » Wed Nov 24, 2021 5:05 pm

Sorry, I don't know.
I got my very first cellphone in spring this year (at age 65) and did not do that much "mobile" programming. :D

Samuele
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Re: show keyboard

Post by Samuele » Wed Nov 24, 2021 5:29 pm

WOW that's impressive, also you helping all this people out!
thanks anyways :wink: BTW I'm 17 :D
and maybe the answer you gave me about the native field can fix this problem, i just replace my text entry field with that.
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Re: show keyboard

Post by Klaus » Wed Nov 24, 2021 5:33 pm

However I am using LC and its ancestors for over 20 years now. :D

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