Re: Emoji Help

[OmPrakash Muppirala <bi...@gmail.com>]

Hmm, perhaps try listening to keyUp event and try preventDefault if it is
the emoji button?
Although it is possible that AIR may never call the handler for these
buttons.

Thanks,
Om

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Erik J. Thomas <er...@linqto.com> wrote:

> Has anyone learned how to remove the Emoji soft keyboard button on mobile?
> I see no property of TextArea or TextInput to disable it. Using mobile
> theme of course.
>
> Even better, has anyone figured out an Emoji solution in mobile AIR apps?
> In my experimentation, the Emoji chars entered by a user in the native soft
> keyboard do show in TextInput because of course that field is a Stage based
> (native) input field, but I want to save the Emoji character to DB and show
> it in Android and iOS apps, in Labels. Another issue is that I believe
> Emoji's differ in their character code representation between Android and
> iOS.
>
> Just looking for some kind of Emoji solution for AIR mobile apps created
> with Apache Flex. I've thought about using an Emoji font and embedding it,
> but then I'd have to "map" the characters from iOS Emoji keyboard to a
> character in the font, and they won't look exactly the same as iOS or
> Android native Emojis. Still, that could be problematic anyway, as the
> Emoji keyboard contains a lot of character categories.
>
> I also thought of creating a custom pure as3 keyboard but that's beyond
> any scope I can tackle right now.
>
> All I really want to do is not confuse users who put Emoji's into messages
> that don't work. Hiding the Emoji button would be the simplest way but
> probably can't be done from AIR.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> Erik
>
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