Cascades Development

[nrjg]

Is there way to set focus to TextField control?

[georg22]

I have the same question.

How can i set the focus to a textfield control? 

For example in the calendar app: When i tap on "Search" the search page opens and the search-TextField has focus and the keyboard appears automatically. How is that done?

[georg22]

No idea?

Can someone comfirm, that this is currently not possible?

Thanks.

[kanaksony]

Hi,

I am having a Search functionality in my app. 

QML is - 

TextField {
	       objectName: "searchField"
	       id: searchField
	       clearButtonVisible: true
	       hintText: "Search for Directory"
		       onTextChanging: {
	                        console.log("------Search Bar Text Changing-----------");
	                        directory.searchDirectory();
                       }
     }

CPP code looks like

void DirectoryList::searchDirectory()
{
	TextField *searchField = page->findChild<TextField*>("searchField");
	QString searchText = searchField->text().trimmed();
	if(searchText!=NULL && searchText.length()>0)
		loadData(searchText);
}

When I tap on TextField, it has Keyboard Up and it seeems focusable. Is it anything else you are asking for, If I am wrong?

[georg22]

Thanks kanaksony.

No thats not what i am asking for. The Textfield gets automatically the focus by tapping on it or when you swipe the keyboard into the screen. Works fine so far. 

But when you look at the contacts app this happens simply by opening the search page.

The user does not need to tap on the textfield to raise the keyboard or swipe the keyboard into the screen.  

So there must be a way to set the focus on a specific textfield programmatically. 

It is easy iwith the AIR SDK and i allway used it...

[d3v3l0p3r · Accepted solution]

I'm searching for the same ---- want to be abe to open keyboard from JavaScript in QML and set focus to a different (specific) textbox without requiring user to tap on that textbox.

EDIT:  I found a solution for opening keyboard - although it is not entirely done in QML.

Simply created c++ class with Q_INVOKABLE method called showVirtualKeyboard().

Inside that method I am calling the

virtualkeyboard_show();

 function which requires the 

bps/virtualkeyboard.h

 header to be included.

Exposed this class to QML using 

qml->setContextProperty("keyboardControl", myClass);

 and then from QML function called:

keyboardControl.showVirtualKeyboard();

 works fine.

Now I can set the focus of specific textbox in QML by calling:

myTextField.requestFocus();

 Works great in beta 3!

[nrjg]

Thanks, it realy works!

Summarizing solution is:

1. Show Virtual Keyboard by virtualkeyboard_show (from bps/virtualkeyboard.h)

2. Request focus by requestFocus (defined in Control)

[bcs925]

@d3v3l0p3r Do you have a simple example (or full cpp, hpp, and qml) sample code to show where all these pieces go? I need to do exactly this but I am getting lost somewhere with the different pieces. Thanks.