native.setKeyboardFocus() without native.newTextField()?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I think I know the answer to this one, but I may as well go ahead and ask. For my app, the client wants the name of a race track displayed as a label in a table row, with a little pencil icon next to it for editing the track name. The problem is, I don’t think there’s a way to invoke a keyboard without setKeyboardFocus, which appears to be married to native.newTextField. I tried placing and hiding a text field, but then it doesn’t receive touch events.

Is there a way to invoke the keyboard and capture the input without a native.newTextField?

I think I’m hosed. [import]uid: 58455 topic_id: 26424 reply_id: 326424[/import]

#2

Actually, I may be OK. I can place a text field off screen and set keyboard focus there when they click on the pencil. I’ll then grab the text field text when the keyboard submit button is pressed.

Don’t mind me, just talking to myself again :slight_smile: I’m going to be in the looney bin before this project is done. [import]uid: 58455 topic_id: 26424 reply_id: 107199[/import]