MultiLine Text Area, word wrapping, scrolling, all that jazz

Hi,

I want to have a multiline text area which:

• When the user types the words wrap onto the line below
• When the user presses enter they start a new line
  
• The 'viewport' of the box shifts with the caret to view different lines ( maybe a scroll bar too?)

Code (UXML):

1.  
2.          <engine:Label text="Notes"/>
3.               <engine:TextField multiline="true" class ="TextArea" name="Notes"/>
4.         </engine:VisualElement>

Code (USS):

1. .TextArea
2. {
3.     height:100px;
4. }
5. .TextArea > TextInput
6. {
7.     -unity-text-align: upper-left;
8.     white-space:normal;
9. }

I have seen other threads on this topic, however they are either dated, or do not give the behaviour I wish. If I recall correctly the above code once worked, however it no longer does.

The above code does in fact achieve my first two goals, however the view port is always static. i.e. once the user writes enough lines to fill the box, the view port does not shift (looks at original lines) with the caret, and thus the user can not see what they are typing, or view text past the first few lines.


How can I resolve this

 

On the text input?

unfortunately that violates "When the user types the words wrap onto the line below" the "this text box does support multilines" is all on one line and does not wrap onto the next line



I guess I want wrapping horizontally, but no wrapping vertically

 

I have confirmed, what I want to accomplish is what you achieve by using the attribute

[TextArea(5, 10)]

attribute on a field, and letting the good ol' imgui

EditorGUILayout.PropertyField

render the propertyfield

 

Is there a workaround?
Do you need me to submit a bug report?

 

Bug reported - case 1219402

 

Hello,
I have noted in my bug report it is marked as closed, I am on unity 2019.3.13 and this bug is still an issue. Should this issue be resolved in this unity version?

 

Still not fixed in 2019.4, atleast this combination of selectors/values. Is there something I need to do to get this working?

 

Thank you uDamian

A back port would be very much appreciated. My editor deals with large bodies input by the user. TextArea functionality would be the most ideal layout, without the back port I would have to support two different layouts depending on unity version

(min version of my plugin is 2019.4)

 

Also running into this issue on 2019.4

 

Long Term Support much, eh ?
Really makes you wonder if you should use the new tools or wait 5 years til they are mature..

Do you have any workaround for the time being ?

Edit :

Nevermind, I used a property field with a _bindingPath to my textArea property and it worked
Still, pushing to the adoption of new tech is quite worthless if there is no followup, we're not talking about new things, but bugfixes here.. Though I guess it's a matter of time/money..

 

Am running into this issue on 2021.3. Any further news on how the fix went?