I'm adding the virtual keyboard from http://www.greywyvern.com/code/javascript/keyboard to a text field of an extjs 4.2 form.
It basically works, see here: http://jsfiddle.net/g5VN8/1/
1) My first question is: is this really the best way to connect them? Looks ugly to me with a timer instead of events to keep the extjs value up to date.
Plus I can't overcome the following two issues:
2) the keyboard icon is wrapped to a new line. It should instead be at the end of the field, on the right side, just as in the examples here: http://www.greywyvern.com/code/javascript/keyboard
3) The field focus doesn't work. I have it in a show listener. Even when wrapped in a window.setTimeout() it doesn't work, so it's not a timing issue. No error is thrown.
Here is a copy-paste (stackoverflow's rules). I'll keep both places up to date.
Ext.onReady(function() {
Ext.QuickTips.init();
var formPanel = Ext.create('Ext.form.Panel', {
renderTo: Ext.getBody(),
bodyStyle: 'padding: 5px 5px 0 5px;',
defaults: {
anchor: '100%',
},
items: [{
xtype:'textfield',
name: 'string',
fieldLabel: 'String',
maxLength:30, enforceMaxLength:true,
allowBlank: false,
listeners: {
show: function(field) {
//focus the field when the window shows
field.focus(true, 1000); //TODO: doesn't work, no error
},
afterrender:function(cmp){
cmp.inputEl.set({ //see http://jsfiddle.net/4TSDu/19/
autocomplete:'on'
});
//attach the keyboard
//because it modifies the dom directly we need to hack it to
//inform extjs (really, ext has no such listener option?)
var interval = window.setInterval(function() {
try {
var newValue = cmp.inputEl.dom.value;
var oldValue = cmp.getValue();
if (newValue != oldValue) {
//only do it then, cause it also moves the cursor
//to the end and that sucks.
cmp.setValue( newValue );
}
} catch (e) {
//form was removed
window.clearInterval(interval);
}
}, 100);
// see http://www.greywyvern.com/code/javascript/keyboard
VKI_attach(cmp.inputEl.dom);
}
}
}],
buttons: [{
text: 'Alert string',
handler: function() {
var stringField = this.up('form').getForm().findField('string');
alert(stringField.getValue());
}
}]
});
});