Dsiable Tab in TextArea

Hi,

I've been reading about this a lot, but I can't seem to find any solution. I'm doing a quick editor extension, and the user needs to be able to make a tab in the textarea. However, unity cycles through all textfields with tab. I'm looking for a way to disable that. As far as I've read, you can't. This:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. if (Event.current.keyCode == KeyCode.Tab)
3. {          
4.      Event.current.Use();
5. }
6.  

does catch the event, but doesn't prevent it. I can set back focus manually though. My idea was to insert a tab at the cursor position, but I can't seem to get that either. I'm using the following code:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.         GUI.SetNextControlName("TextArea");
3.         string newValue = EditorGUILayout.TextArea(p.stringValue, GUILayout.MinHeight(50.0f));
4.  
5.         TextEditor editor = (TextEditor)GUIUtility.GetStateObject(typeof(TextEditor), GUIUtility.keyboardControl);
6.  
7.         if (Event.current.keyCode == KeyCode.Tab)
8.         {
9.             GUI.FocusControl("TextArea");
10.             newValue.Insert(editor.pos, "\t");
11.             editor.SelectNone();
12.  
13.             Event.current.Use();
14.         }
15.  

Editor.pos is always 0 though

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Is this just not possible?

 

I geuss that's a yes, to bad

 

Actually, it is possible, from https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-disable-the-tab-key-event.90440/

Code (CSharp):

1. if (Event.current.keyCode == KeyCode.Tab || Event.current.character == '\t')
2.         Event.current.Use();

 

Thanks for registering a new account to necropost a 6 year old post and answer a question that's relevant only to obsolete versions of Unity UI's. /s

 

Always a pleasure!
Thank you for your post, it is really a quality one and brings lot of value to all of us.

And actually, I posted it because I had problems with capturing tab in Unity 2018.3.... It was relevant to me, and could be relevant to somebody else (not you, obviously).

 

And thanks for warm welcome to community!