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Kevin Montrose
Kevin Montrose

Reputation: 22571

Forcing keyboard to display when a text input is selected

The scenario, I have an input text field I'm doing partial auto-complete on (exactly like the Tags input field on Stack Overflow... because that's what is, basically).

As a user is typing, I suggest things they may typing; the user then clicks one the suggestions, it replaces a bit of the fields content, and places the cursor after where the insert occurred.

All this works, but after the insertion the software keyboard isn't shown anymore. You can replicate this on the desktop Stack Overflow site.

After entering a tag

The code on SO isn't exactly the same, though the symptom is.

Here's the actual code called after the text is inserted into the text field.

$(field).focus()[0].setSelectionRange(newCaretPos, newCaretPos);

(Yes yes, setSelectionRange is non-standard; but it works on all the mobile devices I care about just this moment, so ignore it for now)

On android, iphone, etc. this works fine (the keyboard "flickers" but I'm willing to live with it.

So, the question basically boils down to: How can I force the onscreen keyboard to appear on Windows Phone 7 (Mango update)?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 759

Answers (2)

Matt Lacey
Matt Lacey

Reputation: 65564

Sorry, there is no guaranteed way to force the SIP to display in WP7. :(

Upvotes: 1

JeffCren
JeffCren

Reputation: 416

Normally setting the focus on the textbox would force the keyboard. Have you tried just setting the focus? (i.e. not setting the selection range)

Upvotes: 0

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