How to make an input text field? how to get the information inputed?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Dear all,

I have tried text field but simulator said it is not working…so i can only try it in phone?

Are there any other ways to do it?

Thanks!

#2

Are you on a Mac or a PC?

#3

Sorry to reply late. I am on  a PC.

#4

Hi Derek.  This seems like a simple problem, but Microsoft makes using native.newTextField() impossible for us.  Apple (OS-X and iOS and Android) allow native objects to live with the OpenGL canvas.  Those objects sit on top of the OpenGL and can’t interact with it, but at least they can be there.  Microsoft’s implementation does not permit native objects to work with OpenGL.

So the short of it, is The simulator under Windows does not support native.newTextField(). 

#5

So, it is actually working on the phone but just not on window right?

so I need to grab an mac lol 

#6

Right.

#7

Are you on a Mac or a PC?

#8

Sorry to reply late. I am on  a PC.

#9

Hi Derek.  This seems like a simple problem, but Microsoft makes using native.newTextField() impossible for us.  Apple (OS-X and iOS and Android) allow native objects to live with the OpenGL canvas.  Those objects sit on top of the OpenGL and can’t interact with it, but at least they can be there.  Microsoft’s implementation does not permit native objects to work with OpenGL.

So the short of it, is The simulator under Windows does not support native.newTextField(). 

#10

So, it is actually working on the phone but just not on window right?

so I need to grab an mac lol 

#11

Right.