Hi,
Corona only has a native text input, which is fine for some use except most practical ones:
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Can’t include it in scroll panes since a) you need to move the children manually and b) the input will scroll over e.g. a header.
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Can’t have stuff like dropdown menus etc since the native components will cover them all up
With these downsides I just don’t see any realistic situation where native components would work.
That’s all fine with me though, I’ll just create my own input text by abusing a native textfield and have its input sent to a regular textfield.
Of course this involves calculating caret position etc.
For this to work, I need ALL keys to be registered, not just the ones that result in a visible change of the text. An Asus Transformer for example has cursor keys and these change the caret index of the native input. Therefore I want to register these keys so that I can move the caret position accordingly.
Is this possible?
I am especially directing this question to Ansca by the way. Is it possible to include this in a daily build? I really need this because we’re doing a really big Corona project and I only just realized the gravity of having no text input inside the OpenGL canvas.
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