Question

I have been working on passing an edit text value to a string so I can upload the input to my database, but after a lot of time working I have figured out how to do this by pressing enter on the keyboard. I also have a button for uploading the string and I want to have only the button involved, so the upload button will be enter also.

Here is my button:

    submit.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){

            public void onClick(View v) {

                postData();
            }

        });

Here is the key press enter command:

    enter.setOnKeyListener(new View.OnKeyListener() {
              public boolean onKey(View view, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
                if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER) {
                  name = enter.getText().toString();
                  return true;
                }
                return false;
              }
            });

Here is where I am using the converted string called name:

     nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("username", name));

So I want to get rid of the need for the user to press enter before pressing the submit button, so pressing upload will take care of the enter key press code. I tried creating a method to simulate this being pressed but it didn’t work, and researching didn’t show me a possible way to assign a key press to a button on click.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

you can try this to perform press button

      enter.setOnKeyListener(new View.OnKeyListener() {
              public boolean onKey(View view, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
                if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER) {
                  name = enter.getText().toString();
                 submit.performclick();
                 return true;
                }
                return false;
              }
            });