Animate text fields

Getting Started Newbie Questions
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Greetings. I am working on a login/update app and I’m trying to make it as sleek as possible. I’m using director for my animations since I’m a new user (which is awesome, by the way!), but I can’t seem to get any native.newTextField objects to follow suite with the animation. I don’t believe that this is a problem with director as I have tried other methods of animating the text fields with no luck. I am currently placing them into a display group, and that group is also nested into the main director display group. Everything else on the screen animates, but the text fields just sit there until the new screen has fully loaded.

The only solution that I have come up with is removing the text fields from the display group just before the animation happens, but this isn’t very elegant. Does anyone know of a way to force them to animate? [import]uid: 40611 topic_id: 7835 reply_id: 307835[/import]

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this is a known bug in corona when using text fields in groups
bug #2527 I think it is [import]uid: 7911 topic_id: 7835 reply_id: 27836[/import]

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Steven,

you can’t put any native control in a group, not just the textField
you are allowed to insert it, yet it doesn’t behave like the child of a group.

if you want to animate a native control (any), then you have to write code that is the same with the animation of the group

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Thanks tetu, I’ll give it a shot. I’ve posted about this elsewhere, but do you know of a way to make a native text field multi-line? I supposed I could use web overlay if I have to, but I’d love to stick with the native tools.

Thanks again
-Steven [import]uid: 40611 topic_id: 7835 reply_id: 27848[/import]

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native.newTextField is not multiline
native.newTextBox is

if you are talking about Corona’s multiline text fields, yes you can create them, with code
check the Code Exchange

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Thanks tetu, but I don’t see any posts about creating a multi-line input text, which is what I’m looking for (an object similar to HTML [html][/html]). Do you know of an example that shows this specifically? [import]uid: 40611 topic_id: 7835 reply_id: 27919[/import]

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i’m desperately looking for an example of multine textbox similiar to textarea.

basically, i want to create a textbox where you type mobile number then another textbox like textarea where you type your msg and click send button to send the msg.

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