Need to set focus for TextField

DoradoLab

Hi Gideros,

I have a small problem. I am using a virtual keyboard. Values entered from keyboard shown in a text-field. But when i type, the cursor will not show inside the text box. Is there any property or option to set the cursor. Please let me know how to do that ASAP. That will be a great help for me to complete my game.

Thanks ,

Dorado Lab

ar2rsawseen

@DoradoLab Which Virtual keyboard do you use exactly?

DoradoLab

Simple which we designed which has only Alphabets , Bacckspace, space and Enter keys..

ar2rsawseen

ah, I see
and by text box you mean TextField object, right?
Well TextField was meant to render text, not to input it, so it won't behave as natural text box, but you could always emulate it, like adding an image that would represent the cursor, and then simply animate it using GTween:

local cursor = Bitmap.new(Texture.new("cursor_image.png", true)) cursor:setAnchorPoint(0.5, 0.5) cursor:setPosition(text:getWidth() + 10, 5) text:addChild(cursor) local tween1 = GTween.new(cursor, 0.4, {alpha=0}) local tween2 = GTween.new(cursor, 0.4, {alpha=1}, {autoPlay = false}) tween1.nextTween = tween2 tween2.nextTween = tween1

and then when entering text, you will need to reset the position of the cursor position

cursor:setX(text:getWidth() + 10)

Platypus

Delete t:

setAnchortPoint >>> setAnchorPoint

Platypus

Speaking of entering text, is Gideros 2.0 likely to facilitate direct access to native iOS/Android user-editable text fields (without needing BhWax or JavaBridge)?

(By the way, will Gideros 2.0 be released in 2014?)

ar2rsawseen

Corrected
and sorry, really can't tell anything, will need to wait for @atilim's message

Platypus

I am really looking forward to Atılım's message.

Will Atılım's message be given in 2014?

ar2rsawseen

) Oh I really hope so