Native Textbox blocking touch events

I am using a native.newTextBox object, and it’s in front of a rectangle object. I want to register the touch from the rectangle, but the text box seems to block it. I have the background set to hidden, and i tried turning of isHitTestable but that didn’t work. 

How can I register touch events to the rectangle if the text box is covering it? 

Solution: 

just use

display.newText

and specify a width and height.

Exactly what Bolt said. Do not show text boxes if you don’t want touches to be passed to it. Show textbox only when you need to edit the text.

Solution: 

just use

display.newText

and specify a width and height.

Exactly what Bolt said. Do not show text boxes if you don’t want touches to be passed to it. Show textbox only when you need to edit the text.