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Invoking a numeric-only soft keyboard

Oct 18, 2011 12:50 PM

Tags: #air #iphone #mobile #ios #numeric_keypad #soft_keyboard

I'm new to this community, and this is my first post. I have been a long-time Actionscript developer who recently started developing for mobile devices.

I'm developing a multi-purpose calculator that requires numeric-only input in certain textboxes, and want to invoke a numeric keypad when they are in focus.

Is there a way to achieve this on iOS?

(I'm compiling using the latest AIR 3.0 SDK.)

Thanks

1718 Views 4 Replies Latest reply: Mark.Raykhenberg, Jan 3, 2012 10:09 AM

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1. Joe ... Ward,

Oct 18, 2011 1:01 PM in reply to aeonus

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You can do this with StageText objects, which are a new kind of text field in AIR 3. See http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/fla sh/text/StageText.htmlhttp://

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2. aeonus,

Oct 18, 2011 1:07 PM in reply to aeonus

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Seems like I've found an answer just after posting this thread.

flash.text.StageText seems to be a handy class, and it seems like the only possible way to move forward.

Create a dynamic textfield, and on click, invoke create a StageText instance at the same location as the textfield (by setting the StageText.viewPort property)
Finally, set StageText.softKeyboardType to "numeric" and call StageText.assignFocus();

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3. crikos,

Dec 29, 2011 1:40 AM in reply to aeonus

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Hi aeonus,
do you have an example, how you solved this situation ? I tried out your suggestion, without success.
Thanks

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4. Mark.Raykhenberg,

Jan 3, 2012 10:09 AM in reply to crikos

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I had this question a while back, this might help.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/911214?tstart=0

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