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What is the height of iPhone’s onscreen keyboard?

January 26, 2023 by Tarik

I used the following approach for determining the frame of the keyboard in iOS 7.1. In the init method of my view controller, I registered for the UIKeyboardDidShowNotification: NSNotificationCenter *center = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]; [center addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardOnScreen:) name:UIKeyboardDidShowNotification object:nil]; Then, I used the following code in keyboardOnScreen: to gain access to the frame of the keyboard. … Read more

Handling key-press events (F1-F12) using JavaScript and jQuery, cross-browser

January 22, 2023 by Tarik

I agree with William that in general it is a bad idea to hijack the function keys. That said, I found the shortcut library that adds this functionality, as well as other keyboard shortcuts and combination, in a very slick way. Single keystroke: shortcut.add(“F1”, function() { alert(“F1 pressed”); }); Combination of keystrokes: shortcut.add(“Ctrl+Shift+A”, function() { … Read more

prevent mobile default keyboard when focusing an from showing

January 16, 2023 by Tarik

By adding the attribute readonly (or readonly=”readonly”) to the input field you should prevent anyone typing anything in it, but still be able to launch a click event on it. This is also usefull in non-mobile devices as you use a date/time picker

Programmatically align a toolbar on top of the iPhone keyboard

January 16, 2023 by Tarik

As of iOS 3.2 there’s a new way to achieve this effect: UITextFields and UITextViews have an inputAccessoryView property, which you can set to any view, that is automatically displayed above and animated with the keyboard. Note that the view you use should neither be in the view hierarchy elsewhere, nor should you add it … Read more

Where can I find a list of Mac virtual key codes?

January 13, 2023 by Tarik

Below is a list of the common key codes for quick reference, taken from Events.h. If you need to use these keycodes in an application, you should include the Carbon framework: Objective-C: #include <Carbon/Carbon.h> Swift: import Carbon.HIToolbox You can then use the kVK_ANSI_A constants directly. WARNING The key constants reference physical keys on the keyboard. … Read more

Really weird eclipse keyboard behavior/bug?

January 8, 2023 by Tarik

I was able to “restore” arrow and backspace keys by “Refreshing” the project.

How do I detect keypresses in Javascript?

January 8, 2023 by Tarik

With plain Javascript, the simplest is: document.onkeypress = function (e) { e = e || window.event; // use e.keyCode }; But with this, you can only bind one handler for the event. In addition, you could use the following to be able to potentially bind multiple handlers to the same event: addEvent(document, “keypress”, function (e) … Read more

Automatic popping up keyboard on start Activity

January 7, 2023 by Tarik

Use this attributes in your layout tag in XML file: android:focusable=”true” android:focusableInTouchMode=”true” As reported by other members in comments it doesn’t works on ScrollView therefore you need to add these attributes to the main child of ScrollView.

How to force keyboard with numbers in mobile website in Android

December 31, 2022 by Tarik

<input type=”number” /> <input type=”tel” /> Both of these present the numeric keypad when the input gains focus. <input type=”search” /> shows a normal keyboard with an extra search button Everything else seems to bring up the standard keyboard.

How to develop a soft keyboard for Android? [closed]

December 28, 2022 by Tarik

Some tips: Read this tutorial: Creating an Input Method clone this repo: LatinIME About your questions: An inputMethod is basically an Android Service, so yes, you can do HTTP and all the stuff you can do in a Service. You can open Activities and dialogs from the InputMethod. Once again, it’s just a Service. I’ve … Read more