[android-developers] Re: Completely disable Soft Keyboard from EditText

There doesn't seem to be an ime option in EditorInfo to disable the
soft keyboard.

Can you make the view editable==false but still capture touch/select
events?
Making it non-editable may prevent the keyboard from popping up.

- Brill Pappin

On Feb 1, 1:29 pm, zenperttu <perttu.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like a way to turn off showing the current soft keyboard for
> an EditText. I have a custom View that provides the soft input needed
> for an EditText, so on every occasion (on click, on focus change, on
> touch...) when by default the soft keyboard would be shown, I want it
> NOT to be shown.
>
> The closest things I found arehttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa...
>
> and
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109022/how-to-close-hide-the-andr...
>
> and
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109022/how-to-close-hide-the-andr...
>
> These however do not work for me.
>
> The solution suggested in the latter
>
> InputMethodManager imm =
> (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
> imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
>
> for example works only after the EditText has been selected by the
> user and is already accepting input and so the soft keyboard is
> already on the screen. I want it never to appear.
>
> I can try to implicitly set all of the onFocusChangeListener,
> onTouchListener, onClickListener  to do
>
> public void onSomeActionListener(View v) {
>
> InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)
> context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
>                         if (imm.isActive(v)) {
>                                 imm.toggleSoftInput(0,0);
>                         }
>
> }
>
> However, this is really not a nice solution because
>
> 1) the soft keyboard is first called and shown so that it briefly
> flashes on the screen before disappearing
>
> 2) I can't by trial and error try to find all the different ways user
> could cause soft keyboard to be shown and override all corresponding
> methods
>
> Thanks for your help!

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