Use text input type to control visibility of virtual keyboard

chrome/common/extensions/api/extension_api.json

Index: chrome/common/extensions/api/extension_api.json
diff --git a/chrome/common/extensions/api/extension_api.json b/chrome/common/extensions/api/extension_api.json
index dcfbf30a1c43000d67d9c554fcce715b400d1824..ca1578c4db7ec2e7510af46faae46e3bf3f84bde 100644
--- a/chrome/common/extensions/api/extension_api.json
+++ b/chrome/common/extensions/api/extension_api.json
@@ -3264,6 +3264,19 @@
             "description": "Name of the MenuItem which was activated"
           }
         ]
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "onTextInputTypeChanged",
+        "type": "function",
+        "description": "This event is sent to virtual keyboard when the text input type is changed.",

[bryeung, 2011/08/03 22:22:04]

"to the virtual keyboard"

[Peng, 2011/08/04 19:47:53]

Done.

+        "parameters": [
+          {
+            "type": "string",
+            "name": "type",
+            "enum": ["none", "text", "password", "search", "email", "number", "tel", "url"],
+            "description": "Type of the current focused input field."
+          }
+        ]
       }
     ]
   },