keyboard not showing in editable textArea?

pie

Hi, the issue is as the title says:
I had a working textArea in my project and I dedicated myself to other app parts.
Suddenly I noticed that when I touch the textArea the keyboard is no longer showing up on my phone, while the cursor is there blinking.

On my laptop the keyboard never showed up, but I think it is expected since I have a physical keyboard there - which was (and still is) working properly with textArea.

Extracting the relative code in another project the issue persists, but I don't see any error in this code (project attached) do you?

TextArea.setKeyboardFonts{ TTFont.new("NotoSans.ttf", 100) }   TextArea.setKeyboardSounds{ Sound.new("Keypress.wav") }   TextArea.setKeyboardLayouts(require "kblayouts", 10)   application:setKeepAwake(true) swidth = application:getLogicalWidth() sheight = application:getLogicalHeight()   local chars = {} for code = 1, 2048 do chars[#chars+1] = utf8.char(code) end font = TTFont.new("NotoSans.ttf", 30, table.concat(chars))   local callback = function(self, escape) print("escape:", escape, ", text:", self.text) end     local txarea = TextArea.new{ font = font, text = "", sample = "qP|", align = "L", width = swidth*0.98, height = 0.1 * sheight, letterspace = 0, linespace = 5, color = 0x000000, wholewords = false, oneline = true, maxchars = 27, undolevels = 10, curwidth = 2, curcolor = 0x333333, curalpha = 1, selcolor = 0xffffff, selalpha = 0.25, sldwidth = 4, sldcolor = 0x882222, sldalpha = 0.5, edit = true, scroll = false, callback = callback, }   stage:addChild(txarea)

running the project, the textArea is a single line at the top of the screen (portrait)

thank you

pie

solved it, txarea can't be local,
I wonder how I didn't notice it in all this time.. I-)