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Question TextField doesn't pan to the last character when the text is larger than the inputbox

Discussion in 'UI Toolkit' started by __SHADE, Jun 26, 2023.

  1. __SHADE

    __SHADE

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    Hi all,

    I am changing the text inside of a TextField, but I am having issues where it doesn't show the last character of the value. How to I force it to pan to the right (similar to if a user were to type it manually)?

    upload_2023-6-26_16-42-54.png

    Thanks,
    Shade
     
    __SHADE, Jun 26, 2023
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  2. HugoBD-Unity

    HugoBD-Unity

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    Hi @__SHADE, are you updating the text programmatically and would you like to show the cursor at the end ?

    If it's the case, you can update the cursor position using this API:
    Code (CSharp):
    1. textField.cursorIndex = textField.selectIndex = textField.text.Length;
     
    HugoBD-Unity, Jun 28, 2023
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  3. HugoBD-Unity

    HugoBD-Unity

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    Note that there are a whole lot of utility APIs under these:

    Code (CSharp):
    1.  
    2. textField.textSelection
    3. textField.textEdition
    4.  
     
    HugoBD-Unity, Jun 28, 2023
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  4. __SHADE

    __SHADE

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    Hi Hugo, which UIToolKit version are you using? I am on Unity 2021.3.24f1. Both the cursorIndex and selectIndex is get only. I tried 

    
textField.SelectRange(textField.text.Length, textField.text.Length);
    as I think it should do the same thing as what you suggested but it is still not panning to the right.


    I am not seeing these APIs so I'm assuming you're using a different version of UIToolKit.

    Thanks for the reply, looking forward to figuring this one out.

    Thanks,
    Shade
     
    __SHADE, Jul 10, 2023
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  5. HugoBD-Unity

    HugoBD-Unity

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    Hi @__SHADE !

    These APIs were introduced in 2022.1, and unfortunately, they could not be backported. You can find more information on the TextField refactor in this post
     
    HugoBD-Unity, Jul 12, 2023
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