I know there is a longer Text Entry Dialog built into the Twitter Widget, but I have not seen any documentation on that functionality in the WDK

Anyone know when that will be available to developers? (Yahoo!)

Hello all,

I am using dialogs.TextEntry to input end-user's data. But I realize that there is a limit in the length of the input. The max length we can input seems to be 24 characters, which is too short.
Can anyone help clarify how to extend the length of dialogs.TextEntry ?

Many thanks in advance.
Kind regards

I'm not too familiar with the TextEntry dialog, but you could always create your own component using the Keyboard component, and display the characters somewhere that allows more than 24.

I'm not too familiar with the TextEntry dialog, but you could always create your own component using the Keyboard component, and display the characters somewhere that allows more than 24.

Hello All,

Can any one provide me a sample code for creating a component using the Keyboard component?

Many thanks in advance

Try something like this. Basically create a text box, give it a width, height, etc. Then create your keyboard, and when you receive an onValueChanged event then change the text in the text element. Is this what your looking for? This is a simple example, but should allow you to understand the basic approach, and expand on it.

CODE

this.text = new KONtx.element.Text({
       styles : {
           vAlign : 'top',
           (more styles: width, height, wrap, etc)
       }
}).appendTo(this);

var self = this;
this.keyboard = new KONtx.control.Keyboard({
	layout : 'alphanumeric',
	// controlSize : 'small',
	styles : {
		hAlign : 'center',
                vAlign : 'bottom',
		zOrder : 100
	},
	events : {
		onValueChanged : function(event) {
			var chars = event.payload.value;
			self.text.setText(chars);			
		}
	}
}).appendTo(this);

Thanks very much for your reply and your sample code.

Actually, what I want is to create my own component using the Keyboard component. The compenent is almost the same as TextEntryButton except to show the string in a Text instead of Button.

Is it possible?

Many thanks in advance.

The TextEntryButton is technically writing the string to a Text field inside the button. Look in the control.inputs.js file. The TextEntryButton _createContent method has the following code which creates the text object:

CODE

this.valueDisplay = new KONtx.element.Text({
      id: baseID+'.valueDisplay',
      styles: vsts
}).appendTo(this);

However, since this is only intended to span one line there are no height or wrap properties defined for the themes of this text field.

To better answer you question, how were you planning on allowing more characters? Did you plan on having the text box span multiple lines? Or slide to the left when it reaches the end? Etc?

WidgetRealm: Actually, that is not correct. Dialogs are managed by the container/dock and as such are not customizable. The dialog classes in KONtx are merely wrappers which make the low level APIs easier to handle in a pattern similar to the rest of the framework.

a "dialog" is not the right avenue for entering lots of text. The view inside Twitter is just as a previous poster indicated, a custom view with a keyboard and a visible text element showing what was typed. We should have more examples of keyboard related stuff in the near future.

So it is NOT possible to type more than 24 chars in dialogs.TextEntry? Emails are more than 24 symbols... and we need dialog so it can create overlay over fullscreen view. Not good at all. Any suggestions for replacement?