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How to make cursor for multi text lines? (keyboard)

heyo
Senior

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Osman SOYKURT
ST Employee

Hello heyo,

I'm not sure what you want to do. Can you be a more specific in your question ?

If you just want to add a cursor to your text, I'm going to say to simply use the vertical line symbol ( | ) at the end of you text like this :

0693W00000UnpbpQAB.png0693W00000UnpcJQAR.pngI'm using the keyboard widget shared in this post and I only modified the TextArea to add the vertical bar like this :

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Osman SOYKURT
ST Software Developer | TouchGFX
heyo
Senior

@Osman SOYKURT​  I want that my cursor position changes when I touch anywhere in the text. If I touch in the middle of the text it appears in the middle in the text and then I can edit text. And I want to ask another question. Is it possible to know a coordinate of writeable text?

heyo
Senior

@Osman SOYKURT​  also I use textArea.setWideTextAction(WIDE_TEXT_WORDWRAP_ELLIPSIS_AFTER_SPACE); function. Is it possible to know when text goes to next line?

We don't have a particular trigger for that in our API, but this is easily doable with an handleTickEvent() function combined with a getTextHeight() function. You first get the text heigh of your text when your application starts and then compare the the current height with the original height

Something like this :

getTextHeight

void Screen1View::setupScreen()
{
    originalSize = textArea1.getTextHeight();
}
void Screen1View::handleTickEvent()
{
    currentSize = textArea1.getTextHeight();
    if (currentSize > originalSize)
    {   
        // Added one line
        originalSize = currentSize;
    }
    else if (currentSize < originalSize)
    {   
        // Removed one line
        originalSize = currentSize;
    }
    else if (currentSize == originalSize)
    {
        // still same line number
    }
}

/Osman

Osman SOYKURT
ST Software Developer | TouchGFX
heyo
Senior

@Osman SOYKURT​ This function "textArea1.getHeight() " returns defined textArea1 height, so its always be the same and does not change.

heyo,

it's getTextHeight() not getHeight() ;)

/Osman

Osman SOYKURT
ST Software Developer | TouchGFX

And btw, if your TextArea is "autosized" then a getHeight() won't be the same if you change if you add lines.

Osman SOYKURT
ST Software Developer | TouchGFX

I saw that @Yoann KLEIN​ was helping you on this post. The provided solution is not working ?

/Osman

Osman SOYKURT
ST Software Developer | TouchGFX
heyo
Senior

@Osman SOYKURT​ Thanks.