Android datetime field collision with keyboard

javismiles

Feels like a bug,
- datetime field
- click on create new row button
- go till the datetime field, click on it
- the calendar picker opens
- But... the android keyboard is also triggered
causing a big big mess and its very hard to manipulate the calendar, you close the keyboard, click on calendar and keyboard comes out again, impossible,
you gotta prevent keyboard from coming out

thank you

allan

Use the keyInput option of the datetime input type to disallow user input via keyboard. That will also disable the virtual keyboard on mobile platforms.

Allan

javismiles

that sounds like a great idea Allan, but I just added it and the android virtual keyboard keeps popping out, I set it to false like this, see:

$.map(obj.fields, function(obj, index) {

        if (obj.t=="datetime"){
            fieldobj[index]  = {
            label: obj.d,
            name:  obj.i,
            className: obj.c,   
            keyInput:false,
            type:  "datetime",
            def: function () { return new Date(); },
            format: 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss',
            fieldInfo: 'Euro style date with 24 hour clock...'  
        };

javismiles

furthermore, I can see on the PC that indeed the key input is disabled, so it works, however the android virtual keyboard keeps triggering out with every action, so it doesnt work and its terribly annoying as the android keyboard comes out every time you touch anything, ooooooops

allan

Yes - that would be annoying!

Try adding:

attr: {
  readonly: true
}

Allan

javismiles

Yessss, that made it work well, thank u Allan