I just modified the texting part of Augmented Earth to use a browser widget for texting - it was a huge pain. But - now it has inertial scrolling, copy and paste, and works fine with all of the emojis.
I might wind up going that route on other text entry stuff. It is clean and smooth that way. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 26, 2017, at 3:30 PM, jonathandly...@gmail.com wrote: > > For this case, though, it will have to be called up specially, not made to > look like it was already there. > > The field in question also allows users to put in images - something I don't > think native fields can do. So the app would have an enter text button that > calls up the native field, where the user can type or paste text that is then > inserted into the LC field. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jun 26, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Dave Kilroy via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> OK good, the visible bits of a native field (border, background colour etc) >> could all be provided by background graphics so when you switch fields no >> visible change can be seen - you might even be able to use the >> inputTextChanged message instead of a button which the user has to press >> >> BTW you’ll have to delete the native field instead of just hiding it as >> it’ll be in the top layer and could interfere with user interactions… >> >> Dave >> >> >>> Hi Dave - I think that might help >>> >>> I could give the user a button for opening up a pastable field. They could >>> paste into that and LC could process it and put it into the regular field. >>> It's not a bad idea. >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
