I have an app where the user is entering some data via an EditText control. This is done by alternating between 2 pages each of which obtains one piece of data. When I start, I create the first page and make it active by calling the setContentView for the activity. I also set the focus into the EditText control on this page. When I do that, I am able to bring up the soft keyboard and type text into the control.
I then press a 'Next' button, which brings up the second page. I create this page which has another EditText control, and make it active by calling the setContentView. Once again, this works correctly, and I am able to enter text into the control.
When I press the 'Next' button again, the first page is then make active again (I am reusing the origonal page, and do not recreate it). However, when I do this, I can no longer type text with the soft keyboard and have it go into the EditText control. The control shows a blinking cursor as if it has focus, but if I type on the soft keyboard, nothing happens, except I get the following (odd) errors in LogCat:
10-09 17:28:52.722: ERROR/MediaPlayerService(30): error: -2 10-09 17:28:52.722: ERROR/MediaPlayer(52): Unable to to create media player 10-09 17:28:52.722: WARN/AudioService(52): MediaPlayer IOException: java.io.IOException: setDataSource failed.: status=0x80000000
Note that if I don't bring up the soft keyboard and use the hardware keyboard instead, everything seems to work correctly.
Obviously, I am doing something wrong here, but I cannot figure out what. Can anyone give me a clue as what is happening here?
Thanks.