Control of screen placement of the native keyboard (iPad)

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I have a number of native.newTextField(s) that need numeric only user entry. I see I can call the native (iPad) half screen keyboard to connect to my TextFields to enter values. That seems to work fine except for the fact that the keyboard overlay shows on the bottom of my screen, obscuring the entry, so the user cant see what they are typing.

Is there a way to tell the native keyboard to display on the top or the bottom of the screen, so as not to obscure the user entry field?

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The keyboard is fixed by Apple IOS. You have the same problem if you were writing your app in Xcode (Objective-C). The solution in Corona and Xcode is to temporary move your text fields (or display) up above the keyboard and move them back down afterward. You can see this on a number of iPhone and iPad apps.

-Tom [import]uid: 7559 topic_id: 1931 reply_id: 5705[/import]

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OK That helps Tom.
Knowing that, I can make a workaround, maybe my own numeric keyboard.

Thanks,

  • Alan Gruskoff [import]uid: 6114 topic_id: 1931 reply_id: 5706[/import]
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Numeric Keypad module made available.

So I went ahead and invented the Wheel, well a little plugin anyway in the iPad format.

See the Code section as:
http://developer.anscamobile.com/code/numeric-keypad-plugin-module-ipad-format [import]uid: 6114 topic_id: 1931 reply_id: 5798[/import]

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Thanks for sharing your code.

-Tom [import]uid: 7559 topic_id: 1931 reply_id: 6114[/import]