Create Virtual Keyboard Component for TextEditor

General JUCE discussion
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Due to a limitation with Android and setting the keyboard type programmatically, I'm thinking of creating a numeric keypad input component in JUCE, for the TextEditor subcomponent of Slider. 

I've already made some changed to TextEditor giving it a keyboardType member, so I can check for numeric keyboard type. (I've sent Jules a patch for this)

I'm going to see where I need to override the OS call to showKeyboard. 

Just wondering if anyone else has done this already and might have some pointers or code to share. 

Cheers

 

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Note: I am also going to try doing it all in Java as per this post on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15099725/need-number-only-soft-keyboard

 

 

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Is this the function you are talking about:

void TextEditor::setKeyboardType ( VirtualKeyboardType  type ) ?

 

The thing is that it is not documented and I have no idea how to use it. Setting VirtualKeyboardType::numericKeyboard has no impact on what is shown on my dev Android tablet. Probably I just don't understand how to use it.

 

Thanks

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Yes it has no effect on Android due to security limitations. 

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So it works on iOS then? I have no way of trying that out at the moment.

Thanks

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Hi, is this still the case for Android?
This doc seems to make it sound trivial for platform controls, at least:

https://developer.android.com/training/keyboard-input/style

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So - it looks like there’s an attempt at this in the juce android peer classes, but it doesn’t work. I can’t quite see how it expects to, so it’s hard to debug. This is on a virtual device running 8.1.

Does it work for anyone? I stepped in and there’s a message that gets posted on the system queue, and I can’t tell where to pick that up to debug more, but keyboard shows, and it’s always standard keyboard.

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Edit - works somewhat on a real device.