[FLEX-27895] Need a way to choose type for soft keyboard

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 4.5.1 (Release)
• Component/s: Mobile: SoftKeyboard
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 22/Jul/11 11:03
• Updated: 22/Jul/11 17:39
• Resolved: 22/Jul/11 17:39

Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a TextArea
2. Select a numeric restriction (e.g. <s:TextArea text="Numeric only" restrict="0-9"/>)

Actual Results:
The keyboard that appears has the entire alpha-numeric set

Expected Results:
It should restrict the keyboard to just the numeric keypad

Related:
There should be a way to explicitly set the soft keyboard type to one of alphanumeric, numeric, e-mail, etc. Using a pattern/restriction is the low bar since this is how html works in most mobile browsers. Ideally there would be an extra property to explicitly set this.