GUI Text Field - Remove Focus

So I'm trying to do a FPS kind of thing, and incorporate a "cheat screen" for debugging purposes. Basically, there's just a few check boxes in the top right corner, enabling infinite ammo, and some other conditions, and a text field that controls the user's speed. When I click the text field, I kinda expected that when I click on an area outside the text field, that it would lose focus, but it still sticks. So now, when I try to move with the WASD keys, it's being typed into the text field. Anyone have any ideas how to make the text field lose focus? Thanks!

 

Hi, welcome to the forum!

You might be able to use GUI.FocusControl to switch focus to an inert control or a "dummy" one rendered offscreen.

 

Ahh, okay... yeah, this looks like it could work, haha. I just went for the show and hide cheat screen, which forces focus to go away when hidden. It does return focus when it unhides, which is kinda annoying, so I'll give this a shot for that. Thanks!

 

Code (csharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2.  
3. namespace Com.DankoKozar
4. {
5.     public class FocusBuster
6.     {
7.         public static string FOCUS_OUT_UID = "_________Copyright 2012 by Danko Kozar";
8.  
9.         /// <summary>
10.         /// Blurs Unity focus
11.         /// Should be called from inside the OnGUI() handler
12.         /// </summary>
13.         public static void BlurFocus()
14.         {
15.             GUI.SetNextControlName(FOCUS_OUT_UID);
16.             GUI.Label(new Rect(-100, -100, 1, 1), "");
17.             GUI.FocusControl(FOCUS_OUT_UID);
18.         }
19.     }
20. }

 

Try this to unfocus control:

 

I found a bug in my snippet. You have to replace GUI.Label with GUI.TextField to work properly:

Code (csharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2.      
3.     namespace Com.DankoKozar
4.     {
5.         public class FocusBuster
6.         {
7.             public static string FOCUS_OUT_UID = "_________by Danko Kozar 2012";
8.      
9.             /// <summary>
10.             /// Blurs Unity focus
11.             /// Should be called from inside the OnGUI() handler
12.             /// </summary>
13.             public static void BlurFocus()
14.             {
15.                 GUI.SetNextControlName(FOCUS_OUT_UID);
16.                 GUI.TextField(new Rect(-100, -100, 1, 1), "");
17.                 GUI.FocusControl(FOCUS_OUT_UID);
18.             }
19.         }
20.     }

 

Remove focus from any TextField to nowhere:

Code (csharp):

1. GUIUtility.keyboardControl = 0;

 

Thanks a bunch for this thread! Saved me from quite the headaches!

 

@garkin

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