Possible to use TextField with a custom input widget?

[Peter Murray]

Hi all,

I'm working on a project wherein we need to create a specialized text input field, but use exclusively a custom input keyboard (think like a calculator app).  The goal is that the textfield has all of the normal textfield behaviors (tap to focus, long-tap to select, stretchy selection markers, copy / paste / selectall popup, etc, etc) - but doesn't cause the in-built keyboard to deploy. We need to append characters or substrings via some api rather than from the TextInput service.

Has anyone plowed this ground before?

Best,

pete

[Wojciech S. Czarnecki]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:08:18 -0700 (PDT)
Peter Murray <pe...@pmurray.com> wrote:

> use exclusively a custom input keyboard (think like a calculator

> but doesn't cause the in-built keyboard to deploy.

http://www.fampennings.nl/maarten/android/09keyboard/index.htm
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9732761/prevent-the-keyboard-from-displaying-on-activity-start
[Android] [likely needs a platform plugin for the flutter]

> pete

yw,

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