Overflow text not visible beyond right margin in native text field

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I have a native text field in my app (tested on iOS):

local field1 = native.newTextField(200, 100, 150, 20)

When the user enters enough characters to reach the right margin, the text is not “scrolled” to the left, which means that these overflow characters are not visible. I would have expected the text to move to the left so that I always can see the characters currently entered (like in an html input field, e.g. the “Search Forums” field at the top of this page).

Isn’t the native text field supposed to always show the currently entered characters (like you would expect it to)? What am I missing?

UPDATE1: the problem seems to exist only on the combo iOS 8 - iPhone. Is this a known iOS issue?

UPDATE2: I have tried several other apps with the same device and they all work fine -> presumably a bug in Corona, bug report filed.

#2

The bug was reported to have been fixed in version 2520, but I just updated my environment to version 2603 and  the error described above is still there.

Anyone else having the same problem?

#3

Do you have the bug Case ID Number?

#4 
38216
#5

I just looked at the exchange in the bug report.  We did not say that 2520 would fix this.  We said we made changes regarding fonts in the version to improve their scalability between devices.  We were hoping that might alleviate your problem, but it’s not your bug that got fixed. 

Rob

#6

Ok, my mistake. So, in what version will the bug be fixed?

#7

I’ve re-read the exchange between you and Engineering.   This is an Apple bug which you have the ability to work around by changing your font size slightly.  Since this is a pretty minor bug, Apple probably won’t be in a hurry to fix it.  You have access to daily builds since we made Corona SDK free.  

I recommend getting a later daily build version, following the Engineer’s suggestions in the email exchange from the bug report to solve your problem.

Rob

#8

The bug was reported to have been fixed in version 2520, but I just updated my environment to version 2603 and  the error described above is still there.

Anyone else having the same problem?

#9

Do you have the bug Case ID Number?

#10 
38216
#11

I just looked at the exchange in the bug report.  We did not say that 2520 would fix this.  We said we made changes regarding fonts in the version to improve their scalability between devices.  We were hoping that might alleviate your problem, but it’s not your bug that got fixed. 

Rob

#12

Ok, my mistake. So, in what version will the bug be fixed?

#13

I’ve re-read the exchange between you and Engineering.   This is an Apple bug which you have the ability to work around by changing your font size slightly.  Since this is a pretty minor bug, Apple probably won’t be in a hurry to fix it.  You have access to daily builds since we made Corona SDK free.  

I recommend getting a later daily build version, following the Engineer’s suggestions in the email exchange from the bug report to solve your problem.

Rob