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[Robert Schroll <rschroll@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Robert Schroll <rschroll@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Alexandre Abreu 
> <alexandre.abreu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > The gist of the issue is OSK not popping up when js sets the focus 
> > in a text field.
>
> I'll agree that fixing this would be enough for me to get by with.

I've played around with this a bit more, and it seems that the OSK 
fails to appear only if you try to activate it before the user has 
interacted with the WebView.  While this is a problem in general, I 
escape as I only want the OSK for an inner page of the application.

So I've added a dummy text input to my HTML to act as my focus trigger. 
It doesn't work with display: none, but I can make it a pixel big and 
toss it somewhere out of the way.  (If I make it zero pixels in size, 
the web process crashes.)  But -- pressing OSK buttons while this has 
focus doesn't seem to generate any key events, either for the document 
in general or for the input specifically!  Is this a known problem?  Is 
there a work around?  Or is there a different set of events to which I 
should be listening?

Thanks,
Robert