Is there a way to set the focus to a text field right after calling it? Or a way to call the textFiel with the focus already set on it?
I know I can use “native.setKeyboardFocus()” to set the focus, but unfortunately this won’t work if I do it right after calling the textField. The only way around I know is by using a timer or by clicking on the text field after calling it.
Any ideas?
I’m not sure what you mean by ‘calling it’. Do you mean after creating a newTextField()?
Some sample code of what you are trying to do might help us.
The only way of setting focus is what roaminggamer has mentioned above.
You could add a timer within the show() method of around 50ms and then call the native.setKeyboardFocus() function passing in your textField.
Hi guys, thanks a lot for the answers 
Yeah, that’s what I am doing right now. I create a newTextField() and right after I use a timer to set the Focus. My question is if there is a way to do the same thing but without using a timer.
You don’t need to use a timer.
This will work fine:
local field = native.newTextField( ... ) native.setKeyboardFocus( field )I’m not sure what you mean by ‘calling it’. Do you mean after creating a newTextField()?
Some sample code of what you are trying to do might help us.
The only way of setting focus is what roaminggamer has mentioned above.
You could add a timer within the show() method of around 50ms and then call the native.setKeyboardFocus() function passing in your textField.
Hi guys, thanks a lot for the answers
Yeah, that’s what I am doing right now. I create a newTextField() and right after I use a timer to set the Focus. My question is if there is a way to do the same thing but without using a timer.
You don’t need to use a timer.
This will work fine:
local field = native.newTextField( ... ) native.setKeyboardFocus( field )