Is it possible to open up the keyboard without native box?

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#1

I wan’t to read keyboard input but I can’t prompt the keyboard without having them click on the keyboard. the closest I can think of is having a native textbox off of the screen and using the setKeyboardFocus on it to simulate it opening up. I can’t find any other way online.
 

Edit:

I did some testing and my method did work but I can’t seem to remove the function from the event

function PromptKeyboard(callback) local function a(event) if event.phase == "ended" or event.phase == "submitted" then Runtime:removeEventListener("key",callback) Runtime:removeEventListener("userInput",a) end end Runtime:addEventListener("userInput",a) native.setKeyboardFocus(HiddenUi) Runtime:addEventListener("key",callback) end

after I close the keyboard it should disconnect all events from it but it does not?

#2

2nd question. How could I actually read the button pressed on the keyboard from the key event. event.keyName gives the keycode which I don’t know how to convert it to the actual string form.

#3

The device keyboard does not generate key events on mobile devices. On mobile the only things that generate keys are HID controllers, the volume up/down and back keys (and possibly search if your device has one).

Rob

#4

so is there no way I could find the text being entered into the hidden native textfield? via userinput or some other event

#5

actually I learned I can connect the userinput event to the native textfield and it will do what I want

#6

2nd question. How could I actually read the button pressed on the keyboard from the key event. event.keyName gives the keycode which I don’t know how to convert it to the actual string form.

#7

The device keyboard does not generate key events on mobile devices. On mobile the only things that generate keys are HID controllers, the volume up/down and back keys (and possibly search if your device has one).

Rob

#8

so is there no way I could find the text being entered into the hidden native textfield? via userinput or some other event

#9

actually I learned I can connect the userinput event to the native textfield and it will do what I want