IOS Keyboard Display hidden

[maxs]

hI Ender,

When I first posted this problem, I guessed that it was an impossible task. Now , with your help, it appears to be working. I am integrating and adapting the code to fit my stack, Fraction Gadgets.

If you have any interest, I would be happy to send you a copy. Or anything of mine that you want.

Thanks, Max

[endernafi]

Max hi,

I'm more than happy that I could help even if just a tad.
And yes, I'll be glad to have a look at your app.
I'm sure that it'll be a valuable source of inspiration for me, too.
Here is my e-mail: endernafi@gmail.com


Regards,

~ Ender Nafi

[maxs]

I've been looking for a solution to getting a smaller numeric keyboard into my ipad app since last August.

Ender was so kind to come up with a "fake" numeric keyboard, which appears to look like a real keyboard, but it did cause problems for my particular app in terms of it working with only with locked fields, as well as alot of extra scripting, which in the end made it unusable.

I asked a tech guy at Livecode, and he gave me an answer that has crippled me working on the app since last August. He said it can't be done in Livecode, unless you do it like Ender suggested.

So I ended up waiting almost a year until asking again. Perhaps I asked the wrong tech guy. I felt thrilled that Ender was willing to help me, but that didn't work out. I have seen smaller custom numeric keyboards in other Apps. I just don't know about their compatibility or how to get them into LiveCode.

Please let me know if anyone has a solution. In all my years using Livecode, I have never gotten a "You can't do that." answer. Especially for something that seems so reasonable.

Here is my post from last year:

Postby maxs » Sat Aug 24, 2013 6:43 am
This is so important to me. I even submitted a tech support request to Apple. But they will not help me. They referred me to Livecode support, even though Apple seems to be in control of their keyboards.

Anyway the keyboard takes up half my space on the ipad . I only need it to input numbers into fields. So can't I create my own keyboard?

Has anyone done that?

DO I need to go outside Livecode to get this done?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Max

[jacque]

Apple does not allow keyboards other than their own. That will change this fall with IOS 8, but even so you would need to create a third party keyboard and install it using Apple APIs I think. The only way right now to get a custom one is to fake it the way Ender does. I'm pretty sure that's what other apps must be doing.

[maxs]

Thank you Jacque,

I'm think I could get someone to create a third party keyboard from the IOS forums.
But does anyone in the Livecode community know how to install one using Apple APIs?

Max


a third party keyboard and install it using Apple APIs

[jacque]

We'd need to see more from Apple before we'll know, but my impression is that the keyboard will be a separate purchase from the App Store and the user will need to install it themselves. Apple is firm about apps not installing code on a user's device without their knowledge.

[pthirkell]

I presume that this doesn't help?

mobileSetKeyboardType "alphabet"
mobileSetKeyboardType "numeric"