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  • #326087 Reply

    Hi,

    I started to create a small application for a customer where I just put eight (8) List Items below each other. On the left side a label with description, on the right side a text input box.

    Now when I click on the first text input box the onscreen keyboard is displayed with text layout. Here the first problem occurs: Due to this are all numeric fields by default I want to display the numeric keyboard without the user to have switch to it !!!

    Next when the buttons next or previous buttons are clicked the cursor changes the text input box and the keyboard is switched back to text layout. This should also not happen…

    And finally when the next buttons is used, its possible to move the cursor to a text input box which is not visible, because it’s behind the onscreen keyboard. The box is only moved to the visible part of the screen once a key is pressed. But it’s hard without knowing which input box I’m currently in !

    Furthermore the client does not accept this !

    So perhaps anyone had same problems and found some tricks to solve them I would be more than thankful, because this will be fundamental for or against the decision of MobiOne !
    Also if it’s possible to solve the problems by modifying some source (js) files this would be a great help for me …

    Thank you very much

    #326347 Reply

    support-michael
    Keymaster

    @tobi

    Let me confirm that you are developing for iOS devices? If yes, can you share the versions of iOS that your app must support, e.g,. iOS2 – iOS5 (current)?

    Will follow up with more info shortly.

    #326383 Reply

    Dear Wayne,
    thanks for your feedback ! Currently I use the current v2 beta for developing an IOS app !
    IOS ist a must, Android would be ok but it’s (currently) not essential …

    I think the application should support IOS 4 and higher. If the workaround is only possible with IOS 5 I would define this as a requirement.

    Please let me know if you need more information or my descriptions are not clear. I can also provide you a sample if needed …

    Thank you very much

    #326391 Reply

    support-michael
    Keymaster

    @tobi

    >I think the application should support IOS 4 and higher. If the workaround is only possible with IOS 5 I would define this as a requirement.

    There are 2 issues that we are looking into:
    1) defaulting keyboard to numeric mode for a number input-field
    2) avoiding overlap of input-field by the virtual keyboard

    Will follow up as soon as we know more. We did not make any progress today due to the roll out of 2.0 milestone-3. Monday is a US holiday and most of us will be off but probably trying to solve this problem on the side.

    #326580 Reply

    Hi Wayne,

    I’m sure you all are very busy finalizing the MobiOne V2 release. But can you please let me know if you have any news or update regarding this topic ?
    Because I will soon have to make the decision if this is possible with MobiOne or if I have to switch to other solution …

    Thank you very much !

    #326994 Reply

    Hi Wayne,

    do you have any news on this topic ? Please let me know – also if there is no solution or possiblity to get that handled in MobiOne …

    Thank you !

    #327068 Reply

    support-michael
    Keymaster

    @tobi

    >There are 2 issues that we are looking into:
    >1) defaulting keyboard to numeric mode for a number input-field
    >2) avoiding overlap of input-field by the virtual keyboard

    We don’t yet have a solution for either of these issues.
    Presently#2 is getting the bulk of our attention. We have discontinued working on #1 for now. It requires fundamental support at the mobile platform’s browser level which is quirky atm. We expect both iOS and Android to remedy this soon.

    #329020 Reply

    Hi Wayne,

    can you please tell me about the current status ? Is one or more of these problems adressed in Version 2.1 or on your list ?

    Thank you !

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