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T9 predictive text and numbers
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| It's driving me crazy! Is there any way to disable that stupid T9 word drop
down menu from appearing when I am entering numbers into a standard text
box?
I'm writing an app in C# on an Audiovox 5600 (Smartphone 2003SE). Some
where along the way I entered some numbers into a text box "4567" and now
when ever I enter part of that number, like "45" it automatically adds the
"67" to the end of it, even if "45" appears in the middle of a larger
number. Example, I enter "145" and then it appends "67" to this!. Why on
earth would you try to predict a number? It might only save me a key press
or two. I could maybe understand a predicting a phone number, but any
number, come on! I cannot believe this.... do I actually need to write my
own TextBox control just to handle this?!?!
-Mike
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| Well, after much head scratching, I found that if my 123 mode text box is
the first text box to be shown, it will be in the 123 predictive text mode
that was giving me much grief. But any time after it was first shown, it
will be in the plain old 123 mode which is what I wanted. A temporary hack,
until I find a better solution, is to create a new dialog that just has a
text box on it, do a Show() and then Hide() during the constructor of my
main class. I basically made this look like a slash screen, but it isn't
really visible long enough to be readable, maybe I will put in a sleep() and
keep the hack.
Hopefully this post helps someone else in the future.
"mgama" <mgama_123@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OkRMBxT%23EHA.2016@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> It's driving me crazy! Is there any way to disable that stupid T9 word
> drop down menu from appearing when I am entering numbers into a standard
> text box?
>
> I'm writing an app in C# on an Audiovox 5600 (Smartphone 2003SE). Some
> where along the way I entered some numbers into a text box "4567" and now
> when ever I enter part of that number, like "45" it automatically adds the
> "67" to the end of it, even if "45" appears in the middle of a larger
> number. Example, I enter "145" and then it appends "67" to this!. Why on
> earth would you try to predict a number? It might only save me a key
> press or two. I could maybe understand a predicting a phone number, but
> any number, come on! I cannot believe this.... do I actually need to
> write my own TextBox control just to handle this?!?!
>
> -Mike
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