5.1.1f1 -> Caret woes

I can't believe but after years, still in 5.1.1 the caret of the input field component is not correctly aligned with the text line. I have filled another bug.

PLEASE.

 

That's the least of my problems. I've just updated to 5.1.1f1 and it's a disaster.

- All my UI's, buttons, images etc. are pink on an Android build.
- The animations all changed to generic from human, just figured it out because nothing was working at all, but they still aren't the same as they were before.
- Now it just hangs up when I try to do an Android build.

I need to update the new version of this game on Google-Play ASAP.

Any advice out there??

 

I've submitted a repro to Unity. Hope they definitely fix this ASAP.

 

Remove the URL from your post. We can see your bug history.

 

I'm attaching here the repro so perhaps someone can figure out what the source of the problem is.

 

You changed the placeholder and text objects with "best fit" and custom positions. The caret seems to be written for a specific size. Eeverything is okay as long as you don't change the font.

 

You can 'fix' the problem by adjusting the rect transform y position of the Input Caret object that's created at runtime. Probably best to change it in LateUpdate(). How much you have to adjust it depends on the font size and the vertical alignment, you'll probably have play around and set a specific adjustment per input field.

Also, I believe that the position of the Caret rect transform is set on every LateUpdate of the input field so you have to fix the position every LateUpdate. Just make sure the script execution order for the correction script you write is set to always run after input fields LateUpdate.

 

That can work for a single input field but I have other screens where I have a data grid with lots of input fields. And other windows with more input fields. It would be a pain to add those running scripts.

 

I had this issue too, it happens all the time BUT not on all text field. I don't know how to reproduce it but it's here and it's annoying.

This is weird. Have you tried to disable/enable the UI ? Sometimes the UI brokes graphics but it's only in the editor and disappear if you switch scene / enable-disable the UI.
We upgraded to 5.1.1 and we didn't face this problem.

 

btw, Stephan is adding editing capabilities to his TextMeshPro asset.

 

I think all that needs to be done to reproduce this bug is to make an input field and use a font size in the text child object that's higher or lower than the default size. So reduce or increase the font size and you'll see the caret position becomes more off as you get higher or lower in size.

 

I'm confirming this issue. This is a regression bug. It was not present in 5.0.
I also confirm Animal2 observation. Use a custom font with a big font size.

 

Hi, the issue is still here in 5.1.1p3. Any news about this ?

 

Hi @BenouKat,

I got a reply from Unity QA. They say this issue it's been fixed! But they're releasing the fix in 5.2 beta. It should be available on current beta, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet.

 

Hi @Thrawn75 ,

Thanks for the update, we are waiting for 5.2 but the beta is too instable to work with for now, so we'll wait I'm glad it's fixed