newTextBox not showing text

Solar2D Android
#1

I get a white box on my screen when I use the following code:

local txt = native.newTextBox(0,0,display.contentWidth,display.contentHeight/2);  
 txt.size = 12;  
 txt.font = native.systemFont;  
 txt.align = 'left';  
 txt:setTextColor ( 0, 0, 255, 255 );  
 txt.hasBackground = true;  
 txt.text = 'Hello World';

According to the release notes for beta 8 the newTextBox has been implemented for Android. Does “implemented” not mean “working”? [import]uid: 6297 topic_id: 1839 reply_id: 301839[/import]

#2

newTextBox is working on both IOS and Android devices. The white box is the background for the text box. You are not seeing any text because the txt.font parameter is incorrect. It’s not clear from the documentation but native.systemFont is used as a parameter for native.newFont which is then assigned to txt.font.

txt.font = native.newFont( native.systemFont )

If you want a different background for the text box, you need to set txt.hasBackground = false, and create a display.newRect object behind the text box with the correct background color. [import]uid: 7559 topic_id: 1839 reply_id: 5564[/import]

#3

I get a white box on my screen when I use the following code:
[blockcode]
– Multiline textfield, with transparent background
requestFiled = native.newTextBox(textFieldLeft+5,240,170, 90, requestHandler);
requestFiled.font = native.newFont( native.systemFontBold, inputFontSize)
requestFiled.align = ‘left’;
requestFiled:setTextColor ( 200, 200, 200, 255 );
requestFiled.hasBackground = false;
localGroup:insert(requestFiled)
requestFiled.text = “enter your request details”
[/blockcode]

Have changed everything possible but didn’t work after building and uploading to my iPhone 3GS [import]uid: 11038 topic_id: 1839 reply_id: 15222[/import]