native.newTextBox Questions

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

I’m trying to make a text box, but no matter what I change their is always a background blur and blue glowing box around the text, is there a way to get rid of these?

local function fieldHandler( textField ) return function( event ) if ( "began" == event.phase ) then elseif ( "ended" == event.phase ) then elseif ( "editing" == event.phase ) then elseif ( "submitted" == event.phase ) then native.setKeyboardFocus( nil ) end end end SearchTxt = native.newTextField( display.contentCenterX + 190, 313, 140, 35 ) SearchTxt.align = "center" SearchTxt.hasBackground = false SearchTxt:setTextColor(.7,.4,.2) native.setKeyboardFocus( nil ) SearchTxt:addEventListener( "userInput", fieldHandler( function() return SearchTxt end ) )
#2

I’m not 100% sure what affect you’re going for, but try this:

SearchTxt:setFillColor(0,0,0,0) -- Should hide box while still showing text.
#3

I get an error (Attempt to call method ‘setFillColor’ (a nil value)) when I do that, but after testing it on a phone the box and blur don’t show up. Is there any reason for it showing up on simulator?

#4

My bad, I looked at the docs and I think you should do this instead

https://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/api/type/TextField/index.html

#5

I was mainly trying to get rid of the blue glow around the text box, but since it works fine on the phone I’ll just mark it as solved

#6

Here is an example of a textfield that works in one of my apps.

usernameField = native.newTextField( centerX, centerY - 20, 200, 36) usernameField.font = native.newFont( "Gotham", 25 ) usernameField.text = "" usernameField.align = "center" usernameField.placeholder = "Nickname..." usernameField:setTextColor( 0, 0, 0, 0) usernameField.inputType = "default" usernameField.hasBackground = false usernameField:addEventListener( "userInput", onNickEditing )
#7

I’m not 100% sure what affect you’re going for, but try this:

SearchTxt:setFillColor(0,0,0,0) -- Should hide box while still showing text.
#8

I get an error (Attempt to call method ‘setFillColor’ (a nil value)) when I do that, but after testing it on a phone the box and blur don’t show up. Is there any reason for it showing up on simulator?

#9

My bad, I looked at the docs and I think you should do this instead

https://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/api/type/TextField/index.html

#10

I was mainly trying to get rid of the blue glow around the text box, but since it works fine on the phone I’ll just mark it as solved

#11

Here is an example of a textfield that works in one of my apps.

usernameField = native.newTextField( centerX, centerY - 20, 200, 36) usernameField.font = native.newFont( "Gotham", 25 ) usernameField.text = "" usernameField.align = "center" usernameField.placeholder = "Nickname..." usernameField:setTextColor( 0, 0, 0, 0) usernameField.inputType = "default" usernameField.hasBackground = false usernameField:addEventListener( "userInput", onNickEditing )