Hi all, I'm developing an InputMethod and therefore relying on InputMethodService and it's getCurrentInputConnection to retrieve an InputConnection. I'm trying to extract the current text from the input connection, via the getExtractedText method and it works *most* of the time. However, most is not enough and for instance when calling it on a textfield in a webview it returns null without any valid reason or any errors thrown in the log.
I also tried the three other functions of the InputConnection class: getTextBefore/AfterCursor and getSelection and my input method manages to crash certain system apps (Browser or Search for instance) with the following type of error. E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): FATAL EXCEPTION: main E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: getChars (70 ... -2147483579) has end before start E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at android.text.SpannableStringBuilder.checkRange(SpannableStringBuilder.java:1009) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at android.text.SpannableStringBuilder.getChars(SpannableStringBuilder.java:913) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at android.text.TextUtils.getChars(TextUtils.java:74) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at android.text.TextUtils.substring(TextUtils.java:260) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at android.view.inputmethod.BaseInputConnection.getTextAfterCursor(BaseInputConnection.java:393) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at com.android.internal.view.IInputConnectionWrapper.executeMessage(IInputConnectionWrapper.java:202) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at com.android.internal.view.IInputConnectionWrapper$MyHandler.handleMessage(IInputConnectionWrapper.java:77) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5041) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:793) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:560) E/AndroidRuntime( 7032): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) W/ActivityManager( 2733): Force finishing activity com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity Thanks for any help from fellow input methods developers! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
