Native Development

[shahrouz]

Hi,

How do I prevent the virtual keyboard from appearing by accident in my game? There is no reason for the player to use the keyboard during gameplay so I wish to disable it.

My current solution is to wait for to the NAVIGATOR_KEYBOARD_STATE with state NAVIGATOR_KEYBOARD_OPENING and calling virtualkeyboard_hide(). But that causes the keyboard to pop up a few pixels at the bottom before dissapearing again.

Is there a more elequent way of disabling the virtual keyboard gesture?

Thank you,

Shahrouz

[yohan1234]

Would also like to know this, is there perhaps something you can put in the bar descriptor xml?

[borceg]

Seems that direct way doesn't exit. But, check this http://developer.blackberry.com/native/beta/reference/com.qnx.doc.bps.lib_ref/com.qnx.doc.bps.lib_re...

According to docs, keypress events in the app trigger the virtual keyboard "Key press events come through Screen and Windowing API. For more information, see the Screen and Windowing API or bps/screen.h."
About disabling its gesture, simply write your own fake gesture handler, if it's possible to overwrite the default behavior.

[shahrouz]

Hi,

Is there an example where this is done? As I understand it there are more than 1 gesture triggering the virtual keyboard. Is there a way to get a exhaustive list for the gestures doing this?

Best,

Shahrouz

[BGmot · Accepted solution]

I am afraid it is not possible. If BlackBerry Advisor does not correct me don't waste your time on this. If a user swipes bottom left corner the keyboard will appear regardless of your app.