Issue w/ Native Textbox and Nook(resolved i guess)

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hiyo, I have an app that was released recently that seems to work fine on all devices except for nook(at least the Nook Tablet, not sure on others). The issue is that when you try to type in the textbox field no text is actually entered. It just looks like hitting the onscreen keyboard is doing nothing.

In the released version of the app I have an event listener that checks the characters the user is typing in and will display an alert in some cases. I do get the alerts so the event is firing and the keys are being recognized. When the user tries to submit I check the text field and it is coming back as empty. As a test I removed the textlistener and the issue still occurs.
Has anyone seen something similar? Kind of a pain to troubleshoot since I don’t have a nook atm :x

Also, no real code to share as in my debugging all i have is vanilla native textbox. And I am using 971, the latest public release. [import]uid: 147305 topic_id: 33625 reply_id: 333625[/import]

#2

It looks like i had another invisible textbox underneath that was getting focus. I had assumed that like other objects that when you set the alpha to zero it wouldn’t be interactive :x [import]uid: 147305 topic_id: 33625 reply_id: 133689[/import]

#3

Native fields are indeed still active and steal touch events when you apply alpha to them. However, if you set their [lua]isVisible[/lua] property to false, then they will no longer receive input. I highly recommend that you use the [lua]isVisible[/lua] property instead to hide native fields. Especially on Android, because we have to disable hardware acceleration on native fields that have alpha applied to them to work-around Android rendering bugs. [import]uid: 32256 topic_id: 33625 reply_id: 133740[/import]

#4

Well then. Switching all my native textboxes over to isVisible. Thanks for the heads up! [import]uid: 147305 topic_id: 33625 reply_id: 133755[/import]

#5

It looks like i had another invisible textbox underneath that was getting focus. I had assumed that like other objects that when you set the alpha to zero it wouldn’t be interactive :x [import]uid: 147305 topic_id: 33625 reply_id: 133689[/import]

#6

Native fields are indeed still active and steal touch events when you apply alpha to them. However, if you set their [lua]isVisible[/lua] property to false, then they will no longer receive input. I highly recommend that you use the [lua]isVisible[/lua] property instead to hide native fields. Especially on Android, because we have to disable hardware acceleration on native fields that have alpha applied to them to work-around Android rendering bugs. [import]uid: 32256 topic_id: 33625 reply_id: 133740[/import]

#7

Well then. Switching all my native textboxes over to isVisible. Thanks for the heads up! [import]uid: 147305 topic_id: 33625 reply_id: 133755[/import]