I think it’s a bug or a feature which tries to present the whole activity to you without obscuring it with the soft keyboard at first. I’ve searched once for information regarding that but unfortunately found nothing coming from a really reliable source. Anyway, to show the soft keyboard you can do this: EditText editText … Read more
You can use the ModifierKeys static property on control to determine if the shift key is being held. if (Control.ModifierKeys == Keys.Shift ) { … } This is a flag style enum though so depending on your situation you may want to do more rigorous testing. Also note that this will check to see if … Read more
The portrait height is 264 while the landscape height is 352. I know this is a late answer, but I just came across this question myself.
An indirect and SDK-safe way is to make a text field a first responder. If the external keyboard is present, the UIKeyboardWillShowNotification local notification shall not be posted. Update: This is no longer true since iOS 9, however you may use the keyboard dimensions to determine if a hardware or software keyboard is involved. See … Read more
This is a known issue with the iOS 8.1 simulator runtime and is mentioned in the Xcode 6.1 Release Notes: Localization and Keyboard settings, including 3rd party keyboards, are not correctly honored by Safari, Maps, and developer apps in the iOS 8.1 Simulator. [NSLocale currentLocale] returns en_US and only the English and Emoji keyboards are … Read more
I think you’re looking for the “Text, Web, and Editing Programming Guide for iOS” The UIKit framework includes support for custom input views and input accessory views. Your application can substitute its own input view for the system keyboard when users edit text or other forms of data in a view. For example, an application … Read more
This is a basic in-app keyboard. The same method could be used to make just about any keyboard layout. Here are the main things that need to be done: Create the keyboard layout in an .xib file, whose owner is a .swift file that contains a UIView subclass. Tell the UITextField to use the custom … Read more
Short answer: If you are happy with your keyboard layout, stick with it. Long answer: I will try and aim to make this as definitive and explanatory an answer as possible. To understand a bit where I am coming from, allow me to express my own journey through this jungle: I am a computer science … Read more
In Windows you can set this with a system call (SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFILTERKEYS,…)). I wrote a utility for myself: keyrate <delay> <repeat>. Github repository. Full source in case that link goes away: #include <windows.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> BOOL parseDword(const char* in, DWORD* out) { char* end; long result = strtol(in, &end, 10); BOOL success = (errno … Read more
It looks like Mobile Safari supports the new HTML5 input type attributes of email, number, search, tel, and url. These will switch the keyboard that is displayed. See the type attribute. So for example, you could do this: <input type=”number” /> And when the input box has focus, the number keyboard is shown (as if … Read more