How can I enable caret ? about simple-keyboard HOT 9 CLOSED

Hey @luatnd. I've been trying this out and it seems there's no way to do this. The device's keyboard will appear whenever element.focus() is called. I've tried setting readonly="true" then triggering a .focus() along with event.preventDefault(), but still the device keyboard comes back.

If you find a way to get this use-case to work, do let me know and I'll add it to the docs. Thanks

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Ah, After read the code I can see caret position is handled but package doesn't have any feature to reflect caret to UI.

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Hey @luatnd, could you elaborate on what you mean by "reflect caret to UI"? As you have correctly noted, the keyboard just handles caret positioning. There's an option to disable this handling (which reverts to always adding text at the end of the string).

Maybe you mean that simple-keyboard shouldn't take input focus away from the input. In that case you can try setting preventMouseDownDefault to true.

Edit: I'll close the ticket while I wait for more info. Will reopen as soon as you respond so we can continue looking into this.

Thank you,
Francisco Hodge

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Sorry, I described my problem carelessly.
My case is: I'm using this virtual keyboard on touch devices (mobiles) so users can see both virtual and devices keyboard.
That's why I need to call element.blur() to hide the device keyboard.
For sure, I cannot see the caret.
--> So I asked you.
But after thinking and re-read your code, I know I should forget the caret :(
I could not find a way to hide device keyboard while remaining the caret.
Do you have another workaround?
Anw, thank for your actively supporting.

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Yes. It's impossible.
Luckily we're running our app via webview so we can ask for help from native code.
Thanks.

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@hodgef you mentioned that "There's an option to disable this handling (which reverts to always adding text at the end of the string)." How can this be enabled?

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Hey @raeffs ,

Sorry, I forgot to add this one to the docs. The option is called disableCaretPositioning.
I've just added the docs here: https://simple-keyboard.com/documentation/#disableCaretPositioning

Regards,
Francisco Hodge

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@hodgef okey, thanks ;)

It seems to be missing in the types too.

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Hello @raeffs ,

Thanks for the heads up! I've just added the types for this method (^2.13.3).

Regards,
Francisco Hodge

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