Question

To all,

I am trying to get a simple NumberPicker to work in a AlertDialog. The problem is that whenever I increase/decrease the value in the numberpicker, the keyboard activates.

There are many posts describing this problem, but none of the suggestions work.
I have tried:

android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden"

And

inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(currentView.getWindowToken(), 0);

And

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(
     WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

I have tried calling these functions before and after initialization (dialog.show ()), on keypress events (using listeners obviously), etc. but no luck so far.

The complete code:

popup.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
    <NumberPicker
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/myNumber"
        android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden"   
    />
</RelativeLayout>

And the calling function:

AlertDialog.Builder builder =  new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
builder.setPositiveButton(android.R.string.ok, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
        return;
    } }); 
builder.setNegativeButton(android.R.string.cancel, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
        return;
    } }); 
View view = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.popup, null);
builder.setView (view);

final AlertDialog dialog = builder.create ();
NumberPicker picker = (NumberPicker) view.findViewById(R.id.myNumber);
picker.setMinValue(0);
picker.setMaxValue(999);

dialog.getWindow().
    setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
dialog.show();      

Any help appreciated

Barry

Answer 1

Actually, although the solution above works perfectly, there is an easier way.

picker.setDescendantFocusability(NumberPicker.FOCUS_BLOCK_DESCENDANTS);

This is all that is needed. Anyway, thanks for the replies!!!! 🙂