Preventing an initial capital letter in a text field

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I see a feature request for this from 4 1/2 years ago but nothing more recent than that, so…

Is there a way to disable a device’s text editor from defaulting to an initial cap in a text field? I have username and password fields that, frankly, don’t need an initial capital letter.

Thanks!

#2

Don’t think you can control the text input interface, but you can force each character input to lower case in your Text Field event listener:

local function textListener( event )
    if ( event.phase == "began" ) then
        -- User begins editing "defaultField"
    elseif ( event.phase == "ended" or event.phase == "submitted" ) then
        -- Output resulting text from "defaultField"
    elseif ( event.phase == "editing" ) then
		-- change text to lower case
		event.target.text = string.lower(event.target.text)
    end
end
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#3

Thank you for the response.

I can’t be sure that the username or password doesn’t start with a capital letter, so I wouldn’t want to force it lower case. Seems strange that disabling the initial cap isn’t an option, though.