GuiTextField not clickable?

Miwarre · Nov 14th 2016

Setting a GuiTextField element as clickable with GuiTextField.setClickable(true) seems to have no effect: clicking on the element does not generate any PlayerGuiElementClickEvent event.

This is the specific code I am using for the element (it belongs to a sub-class of the GuiPanel class containing several other child elements):

Code

text= new GuiTextField(NAMETEXT_XPOS, OWNER_YPOS, false, NAMETEXT_WIDTH, TEXTENTRY_HEIGHT, false);
text.setPivot(PivotPosition.TopLeft);
text.setBorderThickness(1, false);
text.setBackgroundPreset(1);
text.setClickable(true);
text.setEditable(false);
text.setListenForInput(false);
addChild(text);
player.addGuiElement(text);

I tried with various combination of setEditable(false/true) and setListenForInput(false/true) with no difference. The field IS shown and, if set to editable, can be edited and generates PlayerGuiInputEvent, so I presume the code is basically correct.

The specific use case is to simulate a dropdown / combo list, where the text of the element is not directly editable but clicking on it shows a list to choose from. I can use a work-around using a GuiLabel for the text and a button to show the list, but the visual result is not as clean and evident as it could be.

Am I overlooking something or there is a bug indeed?

red51 · Nov 16th 2016

Hmm... when setting setEditable() to true the textfield should forward click events to the plugin I tried the code above, as long as setEditable() is set to false, the textfield basically gets disabled (so it does not react to any input - maybe that's something we should change in the future^^), however, when setting it to true, click events are triggered.
It's strange that it didn't trigger the click events in your case... can you maybe provide a full test-case?

Miwarre · Nov 16th 2016

Thanks for the reply. I'll check again with all the possible combinations of the three flags involved and, if I find something which does not match your description, I'll provide a full test case.

About the of setEditable(false) and setClickable(true) combination, I suggest it to be implemented, at least as long as a GuiLabel cannot be (easily?) be made to look like a GuiTextField to show a datum which has been entered (for instance choosing in a list) but not directly editable.

Possibly it isn't a BIG change?

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