How to use one keyboard on two screens?

What do you want to achieve?

I want to have just one keyboard, but use it on two different screens.

What have you tried so far?

I tryed to put two different keyboards, one on each screen, but looks like it do not work very well. When I upload the code to the ESP32, the screen is blocked, frozen!!

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Others

  • SquareLine Studio version: 1.3.0
  • Operating system: Win10
  • Target hardware: ESP32-S3

I don’t perfectly understand it. What kind of keyboards do you use, and what do you use them for?

I’ll need this too in same screen by different callers but I don’t think it will be possible in SLS, using one object in many screens or panels ,
i think you can do it manually by creating it in a separate function, or use it as a component, and call it manually in exported code,

@kisvegabor, What do you think ?

@kisvegabor , I have two different screens (Monitoring and Config). Both of them has text areas that needs to be edit by the user. I am using the standard keyboard available on SLS.

I can’t use a keyboard that is created in one screen on another screen. The keyboard don’t appears on the second screen. I was trying to use two different keyboards, each one on each screen, like below:

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To help me doing this, I’m using the FLAG Hidden and the state DISABLED, but I’m frequently facing some troubles, like the ESP32 stoping to response.

@Zebra, I don’t know much about Squareline Studio and LVGL. I just found SLS some weeks ago… At this moment, I can put two panels on a same screen, each of this panels has a lot of text areas, and anyone of this textareas are using the same keyboard with success! But they are on the same screen!

In code you can move any object from one parent (screen is too parent) to other

    lv_obj_set_parent(ui_Panel6, ui_Screen4);
    lv_obj_set_parent(ui_PanelMain, ui_Screen2);

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I also recommend using lv_obj_set_parent().

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