Comments on: Flex On Screen Qwerty Keyboard Component

By: HevaBoone

HevaBoone — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:07:51 +0000

This looks cool so far, what’s up people?
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Oh, and yes I’m a real person LOL.

See ya,

By: Austin

Austin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:16:29 +0000

Hi, great stuff here.
I am using your keyboard for a rather long text entry and have come across the problem where I want to edit a word somewhere in the middle of my text, however I have discovered that it is impossible. Do you know of a way of determining where the I beam is in the text box or of programmatically doing a ‘keypress’ (since I know that the normal keyboard can do edits wherever the I beam is located)

By: kerk

kerk — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:31:00 +0000

Hi Anonymous,

We probably need to dispatch a CHANGE event ourselves from the Qwerty.mxml component on the inputControl property. Try adding this line to the method addToString.

inputControl.dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.CHANGE));

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:08:00 +0000

Hi Kerk,

Thanks so much for your help by posting this component. Im having trouble using it in my app though. I have a search function which is called by using "change" in my text field. The touch keyboard displays text in my textfield, however 'change' does not recognise the input from the touch keyboard and does not call my search function. When I use my normal keyboard in the text field 'change' does recognise the key input and calls my search function. I dont know how to fix this and was hoping you could help.

Regards Ryan

By: kerk

kerk — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:17:00 +0000

Hello Beth,
It sounds like the Flex builder is not able to find the Qwerty component in your project. In the example notice in the application tag the property that reads xmlns:claire=”claire.com.*”. This tells the Flex builder that the ‘claire’ components are located in the folder src/claire/com/ This is where the Qwerty.mxml file should be located. If the file is in this folder and you have the necessary xmlns declaration in the application tag you shouldn’t get that error. I hope that helps. If not let me know.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:50:00 +0000

This component is exactly what I am looking for, but I am having trouble getting it to work. When I copy what is in the source file, I get the error:

Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Qwerty

Can you tell me how to fix this? I'm still kinda new to Flex.

By: Wanqi

Wanqi — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:55:00 +0000

Hi Kerk,

I did try using that method, however, it only focuses on one field rather when i call that method.

public function setLoginFocus(com:UIComponent):void{
this.loginKeyPad.newFocus(com);
}

By: kerk

kerk — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:07:00 +0000

@Wangi

When you set the focus to a specific field you need to call the method yourQwerty.setFocus( yourTextInput ); The Qwerty component won’t automatically know which field has focus, you’ll need to call this method each time the focus shifts. I hope that helps.

By: Wanqi

Wanqi — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:47:00 +0000

Hi.. I’m have used your component in my flex application and it worked like a charm!! Thanks for sharing your source codes!!

I have placed the on screen keyboard in a internal pop up in Flex, and currently i have trouble trying to get the focusManager to type in both fields. Can you give me some advise on how to do this? Thanks a million!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:41:00 +0000

That’s quite a simple solution to a complex problem. I’m impressed. Thank you for posting this.