[swarsa]

Hi All,

A few of my customers are having problems using one of my products on the Storm. It seems that when the device is oriented vertically, the numeric keyboard / keypad that is shown is missing the number 1. Instead a dot is shown in its place. However, this can be corrected by tilting the device on its side. I can definitely see this behavior when testing the app in the 9530 (Storm) simulator. I have attached a screen shot from the simulator. Does anyone know how to work around this issue?

Thanks,
Steve

[swarsa]

Can someone from RIM answer this? I think other people are having this problem too - is it a bug?

[Ivanov]

I guess here is nobody working for RIM...
try it in their official support forum: BlackBerry Support Community Forums - Java Development - BlackBerry Support Community Forums

[Dougsg38p]

This issue is also open on the RIM support forum for the past 3 days, with no response.

[swarsa]

Well I have finally resolved this by developing my own home grown virtual keyboard. This should work until RIM fixes the bug with their virtual keyboard. In case anyone else is having the same problem, I have provide the code for it here:

public class MyVirtualKeyboard extends VerticalFieldManager
{
    // 1---2---3
    // 4---5---6
    // 7---8---9
    // .---0---x
    private ButtonField[] numbers = new ButtonField[]
    {
        new ButtonField("1", ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK),
        new ButtonField("2", ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK),
        new ButtonField("3", ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK),
        new ButtonField("4", ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK),
        new ButtonField("5", ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK),
        new ButtonField("6", ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK),
        new ButtonField("7", ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK),
        new ButtonField("8", ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK),
        new ButtonField("9", ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK),
        new ButtonField(".", ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK),
        new ButtonField("0", ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK),
        new ButtonField("x", ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK),
    };
    private ButtonField close = new ButtonField("Close",
        ButtonField.CONSUME_CLICK);
    private FieldChangeListener listener = new FieldChangeListener()
    {
        public void fieldChanged(Field f, int ctx)
        {
            if (ctx == FieldChangeListener.PROGRAMMATIC)
                return;
            String val = ((ButtonField) f).getLabel();
            if (Character.isDigit(val.charAt(0)) || val.equals(".":smileywink:)
                caller.setCharacter(val);
            else if (val.equals("x":smileywink:)
                caller.removeLastCharacter();
        }
    };
    private Caller caller;

    public MyVirtualKeyboard(Caller caller)
    {
        this.caller = caller;
        // 4 rows of buttons will be displayed
        int buttonIndex = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
        {
            HorizontalFieldManager row = new HorizontalFieldManager();
            for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
            {
                numbers[buttonIndex].setChangeListener(listener);
                row.add(numbers[buttonIndex++]);
            }
            add(row);
        }
        close.setChangeListener(new FieldChangeListener()
        {
            public void fieldChanged(Field field, int ctx)
            {
                MyVirtualKeyboard.this.caller.closeMe();
            }
        });
        add(close);
    }
}

Here is the interface I created callled 'Caller':

public interface Caller
{
    public void closeMe();
    public void setCharacter(String character);
    public void removeLastCharacter();
}

Here is how I invoke it (this code is in my MainScreen subclass, which is implementing FocusChangeListener and my call back interface Caller):

public void focusChanged(Field field, int ctx)    {
        currentlyEditing = null;
        if (field != checkAmt && field != taxAmt)
            return;
        if (ctx == FocusChangeListener.FOCUS_GAINED)
        {
            currentlyEditing = (BasicEditField) field;
            MyVirtualKeyboard keyboard = new MyVirtualKeyboard(this);
            popup = new PopupScreen(keyboard);
            getUiEngine().pushScreen(popup);
        }
    }

Here is the callback methods on the main screen class that take the input from the popup keyboard:

public void setCharacter(String character)
    {
        String currText = currentlyEditing.getText();
        currText += character;
        currentlyEditing.setText(currText);
    }

    public void removeLastCharacter()
    {
        String currText = currentlyEditing.getText();
        if (currText.length() == 0)
            return;
        currentlyEditing.setText(currText.substring(0, currText.length() - 1));
    }
 

  public void closeMe()
    {
        getUiEngine().popScreen(popup);
    }

Also, I have a menu item where if the user needs to display the keyboard, they can:

showKeyboard = new MenuItem("Show Keyboard", 3, 12)       {
            public void run()
            {
                MyVirtualKeyboard keyboard = new MyVirtualKeyboard(
                    MyScreen.this);
                popup = new PopupScreen(keyboard);
                getUiEngine().pushScreen(popup);
            }
        };

I have attached a picture showing what the popup virtual keyboard looks like. Hopefully this will help someone else.

[Ivanov]

perfect, thanks for posting.
Would be nice if one of the mods put it in a sticky post for collecting usefull code snippets or created a subforum for that purpose.

[JR1]

Fascinating. Could this be used to replace the 'non' numeric keypad which is truly a phone pad, with a real numeric keypad with the 123 on the bottom and 789 on the top, the way God created but BB doesn't seem to get?
Thanks.
and where would one enter all this code?