Hi Simon, > While it's true that show(), etc. don't have the focus object as a > parameter, you do have a three ways ....
Yes, sure: show() is not the problem. ( We also have situations, where the virtual keyboard is started by pressing a button, while the input should go to some sort of label - but let's forget about them here ) > I'm missing something then, why is your virtual keyboard hidden... It isn't. > ... when the > focus object transitions from an element in the regular UI to an element > in your virtual keyboard? Our keyboard is a container item having the tabFence/focusProxy flags being enabled. It is shown on QInputMethod::show and automatically gets the focus. Automatically transferring the focus on hide/show of popups ( = items with tabFence/focusProxy ) is part of the qskinny framework. ( in case you are looking for ideas for Qt6: almost every EGLFS application needs some sort of replacement for what a window manager does with regular windows ) But anyway - the text input loses the focus and one of the buttons inside the virtual keyboard receives it: then the first thing that needs to managed is, that whenever the focus changes - f.e when the focus gets transferred to the virtual keyboard, or simply when navigating along the buttons inside the keyboard - the input context receives QInputMethod::commit() requests. -- But let's also have a look at QQuickTextInput: it automatically calls QInputMethod::show, when receiving the focus. This makes the focus tab chain almost unusable, as the virtual keyboard pops up, only when trying to navigate over a text input - always stealing the focus. Then when closing the virtual keybaord and the focus returns to the text input: it immediately reopens the virtual keyboard. Automatically calling QInputMethod::show can be avoided by disabling the focusOnPress ( = Qt::ClickFocus ) property, but what to do, when it is needed ? So without hacking QQuickTextInput ( = accessing private headers ) on the C++ side you can't get any proper focus management working. Uwe _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
