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nicoqueijo
nicoqueijo

Reputation: 902

Clear all content of an EditText when backspace key is longpressed?

So I have an EditText with the inputType as numberDecimal (I don't think this matters but whatever)... I want it so that when I press and hold the backspace key (longpress) all the numbers in the EditText are deleted at once instead of rapidly one at a time as is the current behavior. Is this possible? The only thread I could find about this issue is this but I tried implementing that solution (overriding onKeyLongPress()) and that method never gets called.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 356

Answers (1)

Erselan Khan
Erselan Khan

Reputation: 845

editText.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {                 
    @Override
    public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
        //You can identify which key pressed buy checking keyCode value with KeyEvent.KEYCODE_
        if(event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN && event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL) {  
            //this is for backspace
        }
        return false;       
    }
});

Upvotes: 1

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