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    piepie Member
    in Game & application design
    Hi I'd like the user to select some app generated text and copy it to his device clipboard. The only way I can think of doing it is through imgui inputText wih readonly flag, but using imgui only for this feature seems a bit overkill.
    Is there any other way I am not aware to do this in gideros?

    Thank you! :)
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    • MoKaLuxMoKaLux Member
      maybe this pie? https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Application:setClipboard
      my growING GIDEROS github repositories: https://github.com/mokalux?tab=repositories
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    • piepie Member
      edited October 2023
      That is to save to clipboard, my primary issue is about selecting some text generated by the app, and then save it to clipboard (I guess with application:setClipboard ). I think that textfield object is not selectable though, and I can't think of other options to write text inside a gideros app. To be clear: the act of selecting the right portion of text is part of the game. :)
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      Gideros UI library has support for selectable text fields

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    • piepie Member
      thank you, I am trying gideros UI for the first time! I totally missed that!
      It might do the job but I can't find a way to select the text:

      using viewport:
      I get an error in
      viewport:setPanmode(UI.Viewport.PANMODE.ALWAYS) - attempt to index nil with 'ALWAYS',
      but commenting the line is enough to make it run. It pans perfectly, but I couldn't see a way to tell it if the text should be selectable or not.
      As a side question: does viewport support "bold text/colored" sections/single words?

      using TextField, I can select the text only on windows player with SHIFT+ARROW, but the cursor is stuck at the beginning of the line on every touch or mouse click on the element.

      were you thinking about another UI element?

      Thank you a lot! :)


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    • MoKaLuxMoKaLux Member
      pie go with imgui ;)
      my growING GIDEROS github repositories: https://github.com/mokalux?tab=repositories
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      @pie, I think you have found a bug in the UI Lib: caret positionning doesn't work well with manually sized textfields.

      Try the code below instead:
      local tf=UI.TextField.new()
tf:setText(
"You can select a \e[color=#F00]part\e[color] of this text."
)
 
local screen=UI.Screen.new()
 
tf:setLayoutConstraints({ width=200, })
screen:ui(tf)

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    • piepie Member
      edited October 2023
      hgy29 said:

      @pie, I think you have found a bug in the UI Lib: caret positionning doesn't work well with manually sized textfields.

      Try the code below instead:

      local tf=UI.TextField.new()
tf:setText(
"You can select a \e[color=#F00]part\e[color] of this text."
)
 
local screen=UI.Screen.new()
 
tf:setLayoutConstraints({ width=200, })
screen:ui(tf)
      This indeed works on a single line textfield, but unfortunately it's not exactly what I was looking for because it is still an editable text and I need it "locked".
      If I set a height constraint on the texfield It seems that the same cursor bug as before happens, but I guess this falls under the "manually sized textfield" bug.

      Do you think it might be possible to extend the viewport class and add a "selectable text" flag without too much hassle? Of course I guess that in this scenario it won't be possible to scroll the text without the use of a scrollbar.

      thank you :)
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      edited October 2023
      Can you try with the patched uitextfield.lua attached and the following test code:
      local tf=UI.TextField.new("",{ flags=FontBase.TLF_TOP|FontBase.TLF_REF_TOP, multiline=true})
tf:setDimensions(200,500)
tf:setPosition(50,50)
tf:setText(
"You can select a \e[color=#F00]part\e[color] of this text.\nIt should even be possible\nwith multiline texts"
)
tf:setFlags({ readonly=true, selectable=true })
 
local screen=UI.Screen.new()
screen:ui(tf)
      EDIT: Forum didn't want me to attach a lua file, here it is: http://apps.giderosmobile.com/pre/uitextfield.lua

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    • piepie Member
      Thank you a lot @hgy29!
      It almost works:

      the \e[color tag isn't recognized if text is between [[ ]] if there is a quick fix, otherwise I can live without it.


      Is there a way to avoid automatically opening android (and IOS) virtual keyboard?
      This might be useful even for the non readonly textfield: I planned to copy from a first textfield and paste the info into another textfield for validation.

      The popup copy (and cut) buttons raise a
      ui/uitextfield.lua:683: attempt to index nil with 'set'
      ui/uitextfield.lua:676: attempt to index nil with 'set'

      I think that if readonly=true we can directly copy to clipboard without the need for the popup at all: readonly text should not be cut anyway.

      Thank you again

      :)

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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      Yes, as per lua doc, no '\' sequence is recognized in long litterals (bracketted). You can work it around by using another char or sequence and substituting it at run time with gsub, such in:
      mytext=([[
You can select a [color=#F00]part[color] of this text.
It should even be possible
with multiline texts.
]]):gsub("%[","\e[")
      Yes, for readonly textfields keyboard shouldn't be requested, I will fix that as well as the cut/paste options. For editable textfields this sounds a bit strange, you could use a readonly textfield (or even a bare UI.Label) and paste the text in it programmatically (with setText) maybe ?

      About the 'attempt to index nil', it seems that UI.Clipboard is nil, while it should have been initialized in uifocus.lua

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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      I have modified uitextfield.lua, same link as earlier. I decided to keep the popup even if only 'copy' is available, to give the user a way to cancel his action in case he clicked in the wrong place.
      Also you can add
      UI.Keyboard.NATIVE=false
UI.Keyboard.VIRTUAL=false
      to your code to disable virtual and native keyboards completely

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    • piepie Member
      You really are a genius! Thank you!

      Are you sure that Clipboard is initialized in uifocus.lua? I don't have any occurrence of "Clipboard" outside uitextfield.lua if I search for it with notepad++ "find in files"
      Search "Clipboard" (6 hits in 1 files of 95 searched)
  C:\theApp\assets\ui\uitextfield.lua (6 hits)
	Line 451: 		UI.Clipboard:get("text/plain",function (res,data,mime)
	Line 459: 			UI.Clipboard:set(seltext,"text/plain",function (res) end)
	Line 464: 			UI.Clipboard:set(seltext,"text/plain",function (res) end)
	Line 677: 					UI.Clipboard:set(seltext,"text/plain",function (res) end)
	Line 684: 					UI.Clipboard:set(seltext,"text/plain",function (res) end)
	Line 687: 				UI.Clipboard:get("text/plain",function (res,data,mime)


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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      @pie, don't you have this file ?
      https://github.com/gideros/gideros/blob/master/Library/ui/uifocus.lua#L177
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    • piepie Member
      The uifocus.lua in my gideros installation folder looks like this: it ends on line 174. 


      --!NEEDS:uiinit.lua
 
UI.Focus={ KEYBOARD=1, mode=0 }
UI.Focus.onFocus={}
local _weak={ __mode = "kv"}
setmetatable(UI.Focus.onFocus,_weak)
 
local function ndispatch(...)
	local dlist={}
	for k,v in pairs(UI.Focus.onFocus) do
		dlist[k]=v
	end
	for _,v in pairs(dlist) do
		local s=nil
		if v and type(v)=="table" then
			if v.onFocus then
				s=v
				v=s.onFocus
			else
				v=v.handler
				s=v.target
			end
		end
		if v and type(v)=="function" then
			if s then v(s,...) else v(...) end
		end
	end
end
 
function UI.Focus:request(w,mode)
  local gained=false
  mode=mode or tonumber(w._flags.focusable) or 0
  if self.focused~=w then
    if self.focused then
      self.focused:setFlags({focused=false})
      if self.focused.unfocus then self.focused:unfocus({ TAG="UI.Focus",reason="FOCUS_CHANGE" }) end
    end
    gained=true
    self.focused=w
    self.mode=mode
    if mode&self.KEYBOARD>0 then
		self.hasKbd=UI.Keyboard.setKeyboardVisibility(w)
    end
    assert(w and w.setFlags,"Widget must be a descendant of UI.Panel")
    w:setFlags({focused=true})
	ndispatch(w)
  end
  --print("UI.Focus",w and w.name,"FOCUS?",gained)
  return gained
end
 
function UI.Focus:relinquish(w)
  local same=false
  if w and self.focused==w then
    same=true
    self.focused=nil
    if self.mode&self.KEYBOARD>0 then
		UI.Keyboard.setKeyboardVisibility(nil)
    end
    w:setFlags({focused=false})
    self.mode=0
    if self.hasKbd then
      stage:setPosition(0,0) --Reset stage in case it has been offsetted
      self.hasKbd=nil
    end
	ndispatch(nil)
  end
  --print("UI.Focus",w and w.name,"UNFOCUS?",same)
  return same
end
 
function UI.Focus:area(widget,x,y,w,h,force,anchorx,anchory)
  if self.focused==widget or force then
    UI.dispatchEvent(widget,"FocusArea",x,y,w,h,anchorx,anchory)
    if self.hasKbd then
      stage:setPosition(0,0) --Reset stage in case it has been offsetted
      local gix,giy=widget:localToGlobal(x,y)
      local gax,gay=widget:localToGlobal(x+w,y+h)
      local gsx,gsy,gsw,gsh=application:getLogicalBounds()
	  gsw-=gsx gsh-=gsy gsh*=(1-self.hasKbd)
      --print(gix,giy,gax,gay,gsw,gsh,self.hasKbd)
      while widget do -- Try to show as complete container chain
		widget:getLayoutInfo()
        local ix,iy,iw,ih=widget:getBounds(stage,true)
        --print(ix,iy,iw,ih)
        --if iw>gsw or ih>gsh then break end
        if ih>gsh then break end
        gix,giy,gax,gay=ix,iy,ix+iw,iy+ih
        widget=widget:getParent()
      end
	  if not widget then
		stage:setPosition(0,0)
		return
	  end
      --print(gix,giy,gax,gay) widget:setColor(0xFF0000,1)
      local six,siy=-gix<>-gax,-giy<>-gay
      local sax,say=(gsw-gix)><(gsw-gax),(gsh-giy)><(gsh-gay)
      local cx,cy=stage:getPosition()
      --print(six,siy,sax,say,cx,cy)
      cx=((cx<>six)><sax)><0
      cy=((cy<>siy)><say)><0
      local spx = 0 --NO cx
      local spy = cy
      stage:setPosition(spx,spy)
    end
  end
end
 
function UI.Focus:clear()
  if self.focused then
    if self.focused.unfocus then 
      self.focused:unfocus({ TAG="UI.Focus",reason="FOCUS_CLEAR" }) 
    end
	UI.Focus:relinquish(self.focused)
  end
end
 
function UI.Focus:focusRoot(w,mode)
	while UI.instanceOf(w,UI.Panel) do
		if w._flags.focusgroup then return w end
		w=w:getParent()
	end
	return UI.Screen.getScreen(w)
end
 
function UI.Focus:focusNext(root,mode)
  local t,p,cc={},{root},nil
  while #p>0 do
    local n=table.remove(p,1)
    for i=1,n:getNumChildren() do
      if n._flags and n._flags.focusable and not n._flags.disabled then 
        table.insert(t,n) 
        if self.focused and n==self.focused then cc=#t end
      end
      table.insert(p,n:getChildAt(i))
    end
  end
  if #t==0 then return end
  cc=(cc or 0)%(#t)+1
  return self:request(t[cc],mode)  
end
 
function UI.Focus:focusDirection(root,dx,dy,mode,atolerance)
  if not self.focused then return end
  local fx,fy,fw,fh=self.focused:getBounds(root)
  fx=fx+fw/2
  fy=fy+fh/2
  local aref=^>math.atan2(dy,dx)
  local p={root}
  local t,td=nil,1E20
  while #p>0 do
    local n=table.remove(p,1)
    for i=1,n:getNumChildren() do
      if n._flags and n._flags.focusable and not n._flags.disabled and n~=self.focused then 
        local bx,by,bw,bh=n:getBounds(root)
        bx=bx+bw/2
        by=by+bh/2
        local a,d=^>math.atan2(by-fy,bx-fx),((bx-fx)*(bx-fx)+(by-fy)*(by-fy))^0.5
        local ad=math.abs(aref-a)
        if ad<(atolerance or 45) and d<td then
          t=n td=d
        end
      end
      table.insert(p,n:getChildAt(i))
    end
  end
  if t then
    self:request(t,mode)  
  end
end
 
function UI.Focus:get()
  return self.focused
end


      But using your linked file everything works :)

      Thank you
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