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TouchScreenKeyboard

Interface into iPhone and Android native on screen keyboards. This

interface allows to display different types of the keyboard: ASCII, Numbers, URL, Email, and others.

Because the appearance of the keyboard has the potential to obscure portions of your user interface, it is up to you to make sure that parts of your user interface are not obscured when the keyboard is being displayed.

TouchScreenKeyboard.visible and TouchScreenKeyboard.area should be used to determine if the keyboard is being shown (activated) and what portion of the screen is using.

Apple's API does not allow to explicitly control the orientation of the keyboard. Instead you can define TouchScreenKeyboard.autorotateToPortrait, TouchScreenKeyboard.autorotateToPortraitUpsideDown, TouchScreenKeyboard.autorotateToLandscapeLeft, TouchScreenKeyboard.autorotateToLandscapeRight if the keyboard needs to be automatically rotated to match a specific orientation of the device.

Variables
text

Returns the text displayed by the input field of the keyboard. This

active

Specifies if the keyboard is visible or is sliding into the position on

done

Specifies if input process was finished (Read Only)

Class Variables
hideInput

Specifies if text input field above the keyboard will be hidden when

autorotateToPortrait

Specifies whether the keyboard should be automatically rotated to

autorotateToPortraitUpsideDown

Specifies whether the keyboard should be automatically rotated to

autorotateToLandscapeLeft

Specifies whether the keyboard should be automatically rotated to

autorotateToLandscapeRight

Specifies whether the keyboard should be automatically rotated to

area

Returns portion of the screen which is covered by the keyboard. Returns

visible

Returns true whenever any keyboard is completely visible on the screen.

Class Functions
Open

Opens the native keyboard provided by OS on the screen.