TextMesh Pro Any way to prevent Inputfield from losing focus on tap?

Hi,

I am currently using unity 2019.1.5, Textmesh Pro 2.0.1 and the text mesh pro Input field with "hide mobile input" true and "on focus select all" false.

For example i am using a multi-line input type, and have typed a long sentence which i now want to edit. I now tap on the input field. What happens is that the editing position/caret appears at the end of the sentence and the soft keyboard appears. However, i want to edit the middle of the sentence and try to tap there. The inputfield loses focus and the soft keyboard closes

Is there any way to prevent a selected inputfield from becoming losing focus when the tap occurs within the currently focused input field ?

I know you can tap directly in the middle of the sentence to make the caret appear there, but its a hit or miss situation with no visual indicators and no way to change you edit position after its made, so if you miss and want to try again, you have to tap to lose focus and tap to try again, hoping that the touch is detected at the correct position this time (I have fat fingers).

In addition, every time you do that, the soft keyboard pops up and down which is doubly annoying.

Current NATIVE input field behaviour is that the soft keyboard closes only when you close it manually or tap AWAY from the input field, not when you tap on it.

 

just here to bump this.
anybody knows how to solve this issue?
makes editing multiline text in mobile (testing on android here) impossible.

 

I created an adjusted version of the InputField — TextMeshPro, where I commented out every line in which the m_softKeyboard was made inactive, but nothing seems to solve the issue...

 

did you end up solving it? i'm facing a similar issue.

 

@Unity Please answer somone from unity to this........

 

I presume this is on Android? If so, please submit a bug report so that we can have the Android team address this behavior since it is Android specific / something that needs to be handle at the Android API level and not TMP / managed code.

 

Trying to solve many mobile input-field issues by using a soft-keyboard and this functionality is necessary.

On Update, I try to force it with ActivateInputField(), but it jumps back to loosing focus immediately.

How to solve this?

 

@Unity Please answer somone from unity to this........

 

same problem here

 

I'm facing the exact same issue. @Unity any chance you have a look after it has been an ongoing issue for over almost 4 years?

 

The way i maintain focus on an text mesh pro input is as follows:

Code (CSharp):

1. [SerializeField] private TMP_InputField filter;
2.  
3. private int _caretPos;
4.  
5. private void OnFilterValueChanged(string value)
6. {
7.       _caretPos =  = filter.caretPosition;
8.  
9.       // Do something here to raise an event e.g. OnTabSelect
10. }
11.  
12. private void OnTabSelect(int index)
13. {
14.             filter.ActivateInputField();
15.             filter.caretPosition = _caretPos ;
16. }