Everything around the Android keyboard feels hacky.
Try one of the following:
1) Set <requestFocus/> in your XML in the edittext.
2) do a post such as et.post(new Runnable() { et.requestFocus() }} etc.
3) do a post again but your use own code in your original post.
Good luck.
On Monday, July 16, 2012 9:26:40 AM UTC-7, Simon Giddings wrote:
>
> Yes, I use this as well, but forgot to include it in the code I posted
> here.
>
> On Monday, 16 July 2012 18:06:41 UTC+2, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried "et.requestFocus()" ?
>>
>> 2012/7/16 Simon Giddings
>>
>>> I have a simple dialog built with the compatibility libraries
>>> DialogFragment.
>>> It holds only
>>>
>>> 1. EditText
>>> 2. 2 buttons
>>>
>>> When the dialog is shown, the edit text control has the focus.
>>> At this point, I want to open the soft keyboard automatically.
>>>
>>> Here is what I am doing within the onCreateView method :
>>> EditText et;
>>> et = (EditText)v.findViewById(R.id.txtAddress);
>>> Activity act = getActivity();
>>> if(act != null)
>>> {
>>> InputMethodManager imm =
>>> (InputMethodManager)act.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
>>> if(imm != null)
>>> imm.showSoftInput(et, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
>>> }
>>>
>>> Even though I get to the showSoftInput step with no problem, the
>>> keyboard is still not displayed.
>>>
>>> So, how can I correctly get the soft keyboard to be shown ?
>>>
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