I’ve been trying to figure out how to create a multiline text box for inputting text by the user.
If I use newTextField and set width and height, I can make a nice big field to input text, but carriage returns don’t work and I get borders around my text (which I don’t want).
If I use newTextBox (which the docs say is for display only) and set it’s isEnterable property to true in order to make it so, I can add multiple lines with carriage returns just fine, but wonder if I’m not supposed to use it for entering text.
In either case, I also can’t seem to get the began event phase to fire. It seems that only the ended and submitted phases are working.
[lua] local onFieldEvent = function ( event )
print (event.phase)
if ( “began” == event.phase ) then
– This is the “keyboard has appeared” event
– In some cases you may want to adjust the interface when the keyboard appears.
–tattleBox = “”
elseif ( “ended” == event.phase ) then
– This event is called when the user stops editing a field: for example, when they touch a different field
elseif ( “submitted” == event.phase ) then
– This event occurs when the user presses the “return” key (if available) on the onscreen keyboard
– Hide keyboard
native.setKeyboardFocus( nil )
end
end[/lua] [import]uid: 64538 topic_id: 19747 reply_id: 319747[/import]