[Feature request] Add return Press event for the TextView component.

[bachras]

Hi,

I am trying to implement TexView and submit it by pressing return button. However instead of submitting cursor goes to new line and doesn't do anything else. I have tried all examples i could found online, i also install this examples app and noticed that it is the same behaviour.

I added alert() :

submit(args) {
        alert("Submit Text: " + this.tvtext);
        let textview: TextView = <TextView>args.object;
        if (isAndroid) {
            textview.android.clearFocus();
        }
    }

But nothing is alerted after return(Send) button is clicked. Does anyone have idea what could be wrong? Thank you in advance.

[tsonevn]

Hi @bachras,
This is something expected while pressing the return button for the TextView. This component does not have exposed returnPressEvent as you can see in the documentation here.
Instead of using TextView you could use TextField, where this event is available. For example:
HTML

<GridLayout rows="" columns="">
    <TextField hint="Enter text" text="" returnKeyType="done" (returnPress)="submit()"></TextField>
    
</GridLayout>

TypeScript

submit(){
        console.log("on submit tap ");
    }

[sitefinitysteve]

Can we not make this a FR to ADD that event to TextView?

Its available to NG2? https://docs.nativescript.org/angular/code-samples/ui/text-view.html

[bradmartin]

I don't think it actually works with Angular @sitefinitysteve - just tried, no go. Was running into this myself. Gonna switch to a textfield and call it a day 👍 If it does work then that doc might need some TLC.

[hairen]

@tsonevn Why was this issue closed? It would be great to have returnPressEvent in TextView!

[tsonevn]

This issue was moved to NativeScript/NativeScript#4882

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