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mathew11
mathew11

Reputation: 3580

How to paste a string into EditText without being restricted by the InputType?

I have an EditTextfield, where the user can switch between two kind of keyboards (alphabetic and numeric only). This works great, but when the user wants to paste a specific string, e.g. AB12AB and the numeric keyboard is currently opened, it will just paste 12 (cut all non-digits out) into the field.

For switching keybords, I currently use the method .setInputType(...), but the problem is, that every string which is pasted into the textfield will be filtered by the currently set InputType.

How can I paste any kind of strings into the textfield without being restricted by the currently set InputType?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 198

Answers (2)

mathew11
mathew11

Reputation: 3580

Statically this problem can be solved by adding: android:digits="0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" to the .xml file of the EditText object. It is important, that android:inputType="number" is also set, otherwise it won't work.

Every time the InputMethod of the EditText object is changed dynamically, the current attribute is overriden, so if you want to add the android:digits="..." attribute back, you can achieve that by adding a KeyListener:

.setKeyListener(DigitsKeyListener.getInstance("0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"));

Note that setting the DigitsKeyListener will also set an InputType (see in reference), so you don't have to call .setInputType(...) again.

Upvotes: 0

Srinivas Keerthiprakasam
Srinivas Keerthiprakasam

Reputation: 883

android:digits="0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

Upvotes: 1

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