Activated textfields and softkey behaviour

[StefanMayr]

Does anybody know why FlashLite changes the Softkey behaviours when activating a text field? I did a

fscommand2("SetSoftKeys", "Options", "Exit");

and have a KeyHandler to perform a certain action when pressing a softkey. That works perfectly. But when entering or activating a textfield with

fscommand("activateTextField");

the behaviour changes to Flashlite-Options on Softkey1 (left) and to Exit on Softkey2 (right). How to avoid this?

thx

Steve

[manikantan]

Hi Steve,
Is this the behaviour on a Series 40 phone ?
On which device are you testing ?

[kaelan_travis]

....this is happening to me too! I'm testing on an N95 8GB, FL2.0, AS2.0. SetSoftKeys works perfectly.....until you actually select a textfield to input data!! Then the softkey buttons change back to 'Options' and 'Back'!! Is there a solution?? Thanks!!

[sajisoft]

....this is happening to me too! I'm testing on an N95 8GB, FL2.0, AS2.0. SetSoftKeys works perfectly.....until you actually select a textfield to input data!! Then the softkey buttons change back to 'Options' and 'Back'!! Is there a solution?? Thanks!!

This behaviour is very much known. You may call it a bug but it is actually a feature to support T9 input on ur device and yes while inputting in-line text ur soft keys go back to normal to provide "spell" function of T9.But yes the odd thing about this behavior is this if u press right soft key while entering data then it get closed. The only work around i know is to write an input class of ur owns by capturing the keys.

Best Regards,
SajiSoft

[kaelan_travis]

Hi.

Thanks for your reply. I've tried using prototypes, but it doesnt seem to work for toffee?

TextField.prototype.onKeyDown = function() {
code = Key.getCode();
if (code == ExtendedKey.SOFT1) { // left soft key
//do nothing
}
if (code == ExtendedKey.SOFT2) { // right soft key
_root.gotoAndStop("home");
}
};

Can you advise more on your solution please? Thanks!

[sajisoft]

You have to create a keylistener for processing key events instead of implementing it on the textfield prototype & i dont think unlike buttons & movie clips, textfields have onKeyDown event . BUT u will be glad to know that i found a ready made class for u. Get it from here:
Fl2.0 inline text


Best Regards,
SajiSoft