Beginner Question - Focus on TextArea

[simmihugs]

TextArea does not allow me to type in it, unless I click with my Mouse into the Textarea.

My application has a TextField. When I set the focus to the TextField with SetFocusOnKey "textField1"
--> I can type in the TextField right away; As expected

My app also has a TextArea. When I set the focus to the TextArea with SetFocusOnKey "textArea1"
--> I cannot type in the TextArea unless I click with my Mouse into the TextArea
The TextArea, I did not change the the theme, has a blue border when it is on Focus, but there is no Cursor
--> blue border so it is focused

How do I make TextAreas accept input after receiving focus?

P.S. if there is a better way to ask trivial questions like this, let me know

[fjvallarino]

Hi! This is indeed a library issue. The problem is textArea is automatically wrapped by a scroll widget, so the nodeKey call assigns the key to scroll and not to textArea. Automatically adding the scroll wrapper causes some complications (such as this), but I think it's generally the expected behavior (otherwise, users would need to wrap the textArea manually).

I just pushed a new branch with a fix. You can test it by modifying your stack.yaml and adding these lines (commenting out the line with - monomer-1.3.0.0).

- git: https://github.com/fjvallarino/monomer.git
  commit: 68acc4c917f512eae143532388f80884bebe4b07

It's totally fine to ask usage questions here!

[simmihugs]

Hi @fjvallarino,
now it works as I expected, great thanks.

I'm not that familar with github - do I have to close this issue?

[fjvallarino]

Sure, you can close it if you feel the issue is fixed!

By the way, I just merged the PR to main and deleted the associated branch. Because of this, the commit hash you tested with does not exist anymore (if you try a clean build, it will fail because stack will not find the hash). The new hash from the main branch is 510de85d5c48d16d45464af96035b0221aca7b09 (this commit hash won't change/be removed).

This fix will be included whenever 1.4 is released, and I also hope to include the fix to the scroll thumb-size issue.

Thanks!

[simmihugs]

Sounds good - looking forward to the 1.4 release