getWindow().setFlags() not working on button click in Android

Asked Oct 06 '16 at 07:50

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I want to disable soft keyboard when we click some button without affecting selection or cursor. I tried many examples to disable edittext but nothing matched my requirement except this one.

getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);

The above line disables soft keyboard without affecting selection and cursor.

Now this line only works if I place it under onCreate(), otherwise not working. I want to disable editext when user click some actions. Thank you

asked Oct 06 '16 at 07:50

Vijay

use the setFocusable property. – Shreyansh Patni Oct 06 '16 at 07:53
Hi, thanks for your reply. Do you mean setFocusable(false) for edittext? – Vijay Oct 06 '16 at 07:59
Yes. The editext won't be editable anymore. – Shreyansh Patni Oct 06 '16 at 08:00
Yes. that disables editing. As I said before I don't want my edittext to be not editable or not selectable. I just dont want soft keyboard to be appear. – Vijay Oct 06 '16 at 08:03
Yes if that property is set. The soft keyboard wont appear. – Shreyansh Patni Oct 06 '16 at 08:05
getWindow().setFlags() works perfectly fine for my requirement but it needs to be declared on onCreate() but I want to use it in button click Is there anything that we can do to update the window manager that we had set the flag or something? – Vijay Oct 06 '16 at 08:05
Then i think you can put the code in UIMain thread i.e Classname.this.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() {}}); – Shreyansh Patni Oct 06 '16 at 08:07
Let me try.. Thank you – Vijay Oct 06 '16 at 08:11

getWindow().setFlags() not working on button click in Android

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