Adobe AIR Development

[soul2k]

In the 2.0 SDK, we were able to hide the virtual keyboard after clicking on a standard TextField by using

this.stage.focus = null;

 This does not seem to be working in 3.0.  Does any one know a new way to achieve this ?

[Paratheo]

This is still working for me...

stage.focus = null;

[soul2k]

This is the code I have running on the Dev Alpha OS 10.0.9.338

NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN,handleKeyDown);

...

private function handleKeyDown(e:KeyboardEvent):void
{
	if (e.keyCode == Keyboard.ENTER)
	{
		this.stage.focus = null;
	}
}

Could I be doing something wrong ?

[jtegen]

What if you add the same event listener to the stage (after the item has been added to the stage)?

[jtegen]

Also, did you confirm (via a trace statement) that the function is even being called?

[soul2k]

I have confirmed that the code is being executed with trace statements surrounding the stage.focus = null code inside of the if statement.

Adding the listener to the stage produces the same result as nativeApplication.

The identical code resulted in hiding the keyboard on Dev Alpha OS 10.0.6 and PlayBook OS 2.0/2.1

[jtegen]

Seems like you have exhausted everything. I would create a simple app to showcase this bug and submit it to RIM as an issue.

[soul2k]

My best guess is that the stage.focus = null does not work anymore because the bb10 keyboard is now native and not in AIR anymore, meaning the focus does not even change when the keyboard appears.

Might be out of luck here until additions are made to the VirtualKeyboard API

[mdd]

I have the opposite problem: on simulator, soft keyboard not showing in dialogs, even though needSoftKeyboard = true.

Is this a known simulator limitation?

[dmalik]

This works for me:

addEventListener(FocusEvent.FOCUS_IN, focusInHandler, false, 0, true);

private function focusInHandler(event:FocusEvent):void
{
stage.focus = null;
}