Advanced Input Field

Hi, I am Alex, an user for this plugin.
I'd like this field to automatically start with capital first letter in a sentence.
Does this plugin support this feature?
Looking forward to your reply.
Best
Alex

 

You could (in theory) comment out the code that hides the keyboard when the inputfield gets deselected, but it wouldn't really be useful as it won't process text changes anymore too. This is by design to prevent additional performance impact when the user is not using an inputfield.

What's your use case for this actually? Why does the keyboard need to stay onscreen?

 

Hi Alex

The plugin doesn't support it currently, but I can add it as a new CharacterValidation type in a future version of the plugin.
I've added it to my TODO list (see https://trello.com/b/0qda8XOp/advanced-input-field), not sure yet if it will included in next release though.

 

Okay, Thanks.
I will wait your next version for this feature.
Best
Alex

 

Hello, I encountered a bug when using voice input on an iPhone.

To create a scene to reproduce the bug you only need an AdvancedInputField and a button to clear the input field in the scene.

1. Focus input field
2. Use microphone button to enter text via voice
3. Press ui button that calls advancedInputField.Clear()
4. See that the input field has been cleared
5. Focus the input field again
6. See that the previously cleared text will show again inside the input field
7. As soon as another input is entered, the wrong text will disappear

This is only reproducable on an iPhone and only by using the voice input.

 

Thank you for the bug report (including repro steps). I've added this bug to the TODO list of the plugin.

 

Hello, I have some problem.
When a user clicks the iOS keyboard button "HideKeyboard" - the keyboard is hidden for a second but appears again

I think it's because of the inputField is still focused.

 

Thanks for the report. I think the key doesn't send the "CancelKeyboard" event properly from the native binding of the plugin. I will recheck on my iOS test devices and probably include a fix in next release.

 

Hi, I am Alex.
I had already asked a feature that make first letter of sentence into a capital letter.
I'd like to know whether it's have been implemented in current version.
If not, I'd like to know when it will be done.
Thanks
Best
Alex

 

It will be included in next release. It's already implemented in current development version as a new CharacterValidation type). I expect to release it next week, still having some issues with UWP specifically.
Progress can also be seen here: https://trello.com/b/0qda8XOp/advanced-input-field (currently in the verify phase)

 

I'm building a basic chat feature and would like to replicate the message input box like Android and iOS do. Meaning it is a multi-line newline input box that has full editing capabilities and also scrolls as the message gets bigger. Is there any way to do this? I've tried content size fitters and scroll views but I cant get scrolling and editing to work.

For an example just use your phones built in sms app and watch how their input box grows and shrinks and allows scrolling.

Thanks

 

Current Advanced Input Fields don't render all their text (only a region of text that fits in the bounding box), so ContentSizeFitters will not work. I would need to implement something in the plugin to get this working.
But basically you need an option to show a (second) inputfield attached to the TouchScreenKeyboard when an Advanced Input Field gets focused and always fits all text (optimal size), right?

 

Hm in a way yes. Or a way to easily scroll through an advanced input field while maintaining editability. Basically I need to mirror the experience of a native sms applications input box.

 

Character limit does not work on iOS
As a workaround I added some code to MobileTextInputHandler in ProcessTextChange

if(InputField.CharacterLimit > 0 && keyboardEvent.Value.Length > InputField.CharacterLimit)

{

Keyboard.ChangeText(InputField.Text);

} else {

InputField.Text = keyboardEvent.Value;

}

 

Hello,

After upgrading to 1.5.0 I only get the keyboard working for first time I activate an input field. Next time the field activates and cursor starts blinking, but the keyboard doesn't show. Has anything changed that I should implement in my code? I'm using input.ManualSelect() to activate the fields from code.

So it's working first time, I can submit and keyboard goes down. Second time it's not showing.

I'm testing on a Note 8.

EDIT: don't know if this is a clue, I'm seeing thousands of this message in logcat:

InputMethodManagerService: hideCurrentInputLocked : shouldHideSoftInput is false

 

I noticed a problem with the character limit code on iOS while fixing something else (it was using the wrong text variable in the native iOS binding.) It's fixed in current development version and will be included in next release.

 

Could you try replacing attached file (NativeKeyboard.aar) in Assets/Plugins/Android? This fixes a cancel keyboard bug that occurred when changing between some keyboard types, so it might be related.

 

Hi, I have installed your updated new version of Advanced Input Field. All features are working correctly.
Regarding to cursor position, I'd like to know how can I set the cursor position programmatically at run time.
Looking forward to your reply.
Best
Alex

 

Hi, I've installed new version of your advanced input field plugin. All features are working correctly.
Regarding to use of this plugin, I'd like to know some thing.
1. How can I set cursor position programmatically at run time.
2. How can I get string of current cursor position when user change the cursor position.
Looking forward to your reply.
Best
Alex

 

For the first functionality you can add this method in AdvancedInputField.cs:

Code (CSharp):

1. public void SetCaretPosition(int caretPosition)
2. {
3.     if(textNavigator != null && text != null)
4.     {
5.         textNavigator.CaretPosition = Mathf.Clamp(caretPosition, 0, text.Length);
6.     }
7.     else
8.     {
9.         Debug.LogWarning("Couldn't set caret position, the input field is not initialized yet");
10.     }
11. }

For the second functionality I'll need to change some more code (implementing event for caret changes and exposing that to the AdvancedInputField class).
I'll take a look at that later (probably tomorrow)

 

Thanks. I will wait for you tomorrow.

 

And, I'd like to know the event when user move the cursor position.
Thanks
Best
Alex

 

Regarding to the function that you mentioned above, it's not working for me.
The text that should be displayed on the Advance input field is longer than the input field can display.

"[3/12/2018 1:26 AM]\r\nThis is my new note for this schedule.\r\n[3/12/2018 1:26 AM]\r\nI'd like to discuss about this feature today.\r\n[3/12/2018 1:27 AM]\r\nHi\nWhat are you doing now ?\n\r\n[3/12/2018 1:28 AM]\r\nI am writing new spec for this feature.\r\n[3/12/2018 1:29 AM]\r\nIs it possible to chat with you for this\nFeature?\n\r\n[3/12/2018 1:32 AM]\r\nWhat do you this about this feature?\r\n[3/12/2018 1:34 AM]\r\nI can not understand what you mean.\r\n[3/12/2018 1:36 AM]\r\nWhen I develop this logic, this feature was very simple for my view.\n\n\r\n[3/12/2018 1:37 AM]\r\nBut currently, It's \nNot so easy logic to implement.\r\n[ I DAG ]\n"

This is the text that should be displayed on the input field.
I am going to set the cursor position to the end of this text.
so, user can edit text from the end of this text.
But when I call the method "SetCaretPosition", it's not set the cursor at the end of this text.

I've called this method in the call back function named "OnSelectionChanged(bool arg0)".
In your advanced input field plugin, this function is called when user tap the input field and going to edit text.

I will thanks if you can teach me for this issue.

Looking forward to your reply.

Best
Alex

 

Ah, OK. I only tested it quickly yesterday with some text that fits in the inputfield, but it should autoscroll to the place of the caret position automatically normally. I'll look into it tonight why it's not doing that.

 

Thank you.
I will wait for your reply.
Best
Alex.

 

Hi, today I updated the plugin from asset store.
For Android everything is OK
For iOS I have problems:

There are a lot of duplicates symbols for architecture arm64

for example: duplicate symbol _indexOf In NativeKeyboard.a

You can see it in a screenshot (Screen Shot 2018-03-12 at 17.33.13.png)

1) What should I do?
2) Should I remove the TouchScreenKeyboard.a ?

 

You might have missed it, but see the first post of this thread for the Upgrade Notes . It tells you which files are outdated and should be removed.

 

Content type integer and decimal are not working on android.

Edit: Nevermind, I have to update to Unity 5.6.5. I'll report back when done.

 

After some debugging I noticed that caret position gets overwritten by the internal processing of the tap event that occurs after the OnSelectionChanged event. A temporarily workaround is to delay the SetCaretPosition call by 1 frame.

My debug code:

Code (CSharp):

1. public class Test4: MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     [SerializeField]
4.     private AdvancedInputField inputField;
5.  
6.     private void Start()
7.     {
8.         inputField.OnSelectionChanged.AddListener(OnSelectionChanged);
9.         inputField.OnCaretPositionChanged.AddListener(OnCaretPositionChanged);
10.         inputField.Text = "[3 / 12 / 2018 1:26 AM]\r\nThis is my new note for this schedule.\r\n[3 / 12 / 2018 1:26 AM]\r\nI'd like to discuss about this feature today.\r\n[3/12/2018 1:27 AM]\r\nHi\nWhat are you doing now ?\n\r\n[3/12/2018 1:28 AM]\r\nI am writing new spec for this feature.\r\n[3/12/2018 1:29 AM]\r\nIs it possible to chat with you for this\nFeature?\n\r\n[3/12/2018 1:32 AM]\r\nWhat do you this about this feature?\r\n[3/12/2018 1:34 AM]\r\nI can not understand what you mean.\r\n[3/12/2018 1:36 AM]\r\nWhen I develop this logic, this feature was very simple for my view.\n\n\r\n[3/12/2018 1:37 AM]\r\nBut currently, It's \nNot so easy logic to implement.\r\n[I DAG]\n";
11.     }
12.  
13.     public void OnClearClick()
14.     {
15.         Debug.Log("OnClearClick");
16.         inputField.Clear();
17.     }
18.  
19.     public void OnSelectionChanged(bool selected)
20.     {
21.         Debug.Log("OnSelectionChanged: " + selected);
22.         if(selected)
23.         {
24.             //inputField.SetCaretPosition(inputField.Text.Length); //Too early, caret position  modification will get overwritten by tap event
25.             StartCoroutine(DelayedCaretSet());
26.         }
27.     }
28.  
29.     private IEnumerator DelayedCaretSet()
30.     {
31.         yield return null;
32.         inputField.SetCaretPosition(inputField.Text.Length);
33.     }
34.  
35.     public void OnCaretPositionChanged(int caretPosition)
36.     {
37.         Debug.Log("OnCaretPositionChanged: " + caretPosition);
38.     }
39. }

Please apply attached patch version, it contains several small fixes and adds an event for caret position changes.

I'm thinking about maybe including an option on a AdvancedInputField instance to determine what should happen with the caret position when it get's focused (use press location of User, beginning of text or end of text).

 

Confirmed not working on Unity 5.6.5.

This is the keyboard that appears when Content Type is integer:


This is the keyboard that appears when Content Type is decimal:


Edit:
I tested them on a different device and they worked. I am now testing on other devices.

Edit 2:
I tested them on different devices and they are different on every device. Some give you the option to add the . on decimal keypad, some don't. What should I do?

Edit 3:
Downloading a better android keyboard solves this issue. Instructing users to download a better keyboard is madness, but it will have to do.

 

Hmm, inconsistent behaviour on different Android devices... What devices do work and which don't? I only have Samsung devices for development, but maybe I can find one of those devices that don't work to test with.

Another workaround is to show the full keyboard by setting 'Custom' content type in the inspector: KeyboardType: Default and CharacterValidation: Decimal, but this is less user friendly.

 

After I removed the file I got the same error

There are a lot of duplicates symbols for architecture arm64
duplicate symbol _indexOf In NativeKeyboard.a
NativeKeyboard.a (UnityCallBack.o)
NativeKeyboard.a (TextValidator.o)

duplicate symbol _countOccurences
NativeKeyboard.a (UnityCallBack.o)
NativeKeyboard.a (TextValidator.o)

duplicate symbol _clamp
NativeKeyboard.a (UnityCallBack.o)
NativeKeyboard.a (TextValidator.o)

duplicate symbol _UnityStringFromNSString
NativeKeyboard.a (UnityCallBack.o)
NativeKeyboard.a (TextValidator.o)

SEE ScreenShot .

I have removed the next files

- Plugins/Android/TouchScreenKeyboard.aar
- Plugins/iOS/TouchScreenKeyboard.a
- Plugins/UWP/UWPKeyboard.pri
- Plugins/UWP/UWPKeyboard.pdb
- Plugins/UWP/UWPKeyboard.dll
- Plugins/Advanced Input Field/Scripts/TouchScreenKeyboard​

 

I tried to reproduce the errors, but couldn't get those errors to appear when building or archiving the iOS app in Xcode. I made a new project in Unity, imported version 1.5 package of the plugin, added the sample scenes to the build settings and made a build for iOS device (also tried archiving). This works for me without errors.

Perhaps it's a specific Unity or Xcode version that's causing that error.

I did find a possible problem in the iOS code that could cause errors. So I've rebuild the iOS Native binding file again. See if the attached file fixes it for you (replace it in Assets/Plugins/iOS).
Otherwise please specify me what version of Unity & Xcode you are using and any custom build settings you have used.

 

Hi
I purchased this package.
When I played sample scenes, It is not working.
In Phone, When I click input field, It never appears keyboard screen.
So I can't input letters.
What is wrong?
I didn't change anything.

 

Hmm, strange.
I need a little more information to pinpoint the issue.
What platform are you using? Android, iOS, UWP?
What is your mobile test device?
Do you have any bluetooth/hardware keyboard connected to the device? (Maybe it's sending a false positive for a hardware keyboard)
Does it show the blinking caret after you selected the input field?

 

Hi, I am sorry but I still have errors.

XCode Version 9.2 (9C40b)
Unity Version 2017.3.0f3

I created a new project import your plugins - everything is WORK )

But my project isn't compilated.
I found such flags in BuildSetting -> Other Linker Flags
$(inherited) -weak_framework CoreMotion -weak-lSystem -ObjC

The flag "-ObjC" breaks the compilation. If I remove this flag - build compilation is successful.
I use this flag for GoogleSignIn plugins.

 

Thanks for your reply.
I used android platform first.
and I tested both of Samsung S6 and Nox emulator.
but When I click input filed, nothing happens.
Only show the blinking caret.

 

Hi jpienbro
Did you get my issues?

 

Please see the PM that I have just send to you.

 

Hi
I played Form.apk on my android phone.
It works good

 

OK, will see if I reproduce it that way

 

These devices are old Samsung phones that use an old version of Samsung Keyboard.

Another unrelated issue:
Do you remember a bug in a previous version where if you left the app open on android and never closed it, and then the phone automatically cleaned memory and then you tried opening the app again it would crash? It's happening again.

 

Something very strange is happening in one of my projects. The native keyboard is not showing on iOS. The input fields are there and when I click on them the carat shows normally but the keyboard doesn't appear. The same project works fine on android. The debug logs don't show anything.
This only happens on this project. Other projects work fine with the same version of the plugin, project settings and compilation settings. I tried everything from tweaking settings to deleting and reinstalling the plugin.
I'm thinking about creating a new project and importing the assets from the old project to the new one, basically recreating the project. Do you have any ideas before I do this? This issue makes absolutely no sense to me.

 

I could reproduce the issue with the adding the GoogleSignIn SDK to my test Xcode project. I've modified some of the classes with errors in the native iOS binding to use Objective C style notation and that seems to fix the compiler errors issues in my test project.
Could you please check if this fixes it for you too?

 

I probably forgot to add the fix for that crash in the new native Android binding (old code for fix should still work I think). I'll add it again in the next release.

 

Maybe some other plugin is causing conflicts with this plugin. That's usually the first thing I check when I have different behaviour in two similar projects.

 

Thank you, please don't forget

The project doesn't have any other plugins. It only has some sprites and very basic scripts. I will double check and get back to you.

 

Thank, you so much
Everything is working

 

I created an empty project, imported Advanced Input Field Plugin, and ran the sample scenes on an iPad 4 mini. The virtual keyboard does not appear. This is very strange as the plugin is working on another project. I don't understand what could be the problem.
Can I get an older version of the plugin in the meantime?
Or... is it possible to have a new version with these fixes by monday?

 

I've send you a PM