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[jaxim]

Is there anyway to tell the MiniKeyboard to select a particular text button? I use the MiniKeyboard on my search screen. When I go back a screen, I reset the search screen so it looks like it first did when the user comes back to the search screen. I hide the search results; I set the focus back onto the MiniKeyboard. One other thing I would like to do in order to reset the screen is set the default focused letter to be the upper left and corner letter. 


Is there a way to tell the keyboard to change which letter is in focus?

thanks!

[joetesta]

If I'm not mistaken,  miniKeyboard and keyboard don't support setting position programmatically; I think you have two options:
1) re-instantiate each time the screen loads;

m.minikeyboard = createObject("RoSGNode", "miniKeyboard")

  (now it will have default focus position, and all other fields reset to default)

2) create a custom component that acts like minikeyboard but allows programatic control over focus position.

[jaxim]

Joe:

Re-instantiating a MiniKeyboard works, It's a bit overkill, but it works. I wish brightscript allowed to reset the existing keyboard, but whatever works.

thanks!!!

[joetesta]

well it's not brightscript that's stopping you but the design of the individual components.  Roku could have included this when they created the pre-built components, but since they didn't, you still have the option to build your own custom component that looks and acts like the miniKeyboard component.  But it's a much bigger pain than re-instantiating, so if this is all you need, that's what I'd do.

[jaxim]

thanks, Joe!

[necrotek]

I have not tested with the minikeyboard but for the full sized keyboard that is a part of a keyboard dialog

m.keyboard=m.TOP.createChild("KeyboardDialog")
m.keyboard.buttons=["CONFIRM","CANCEL"]
'...
m.keyboard.focusButton=0 'resets to confirm
m.keyboard.getchild(11).getchild(0).getchild(0).JumpToItem=0 'or animateToItem=0 if you want it to visibly move