Return on focused text input

[NinetyRalph]

There’s a text input I have and I want it so when people write on it and press enter something happens, but while this works

It also requires the user to click somewhere else, to unfocus the text input so it’s saved or something, can I make it so it doesn’t require that extra click?

[NinetyRalph]

I still couldn’t do this

[Reborn]

You want to focus or unfocus? Ok unfocus, I will try that with javascript

[worriedpixels]

Unfortunately this isn’t possible. Here’s a thread about it:

Check keypresses whileText Input has focus

It would be useful if when the text input has focus, if the keys could still be read with the keyboard conditions and expressions. There are times when you would like to know when keys like return is pressed. If that’s not possible or practical then it would be helpful to have a condition like enter key was just pressed So, text like an answer can be checked without having to click a submit button or switch between the keyboard and the mouse. When you submit text especially multiple texts in …

Edit: this is about how you can’t just press Enter (for example) to commit the text of an input field.

[Reborn]

thats very simple:

runtimeScene.getObjects("Name")[0]._renderer.input.blur()

but as @worriedpixels stated, you still cant check keypresses

[Reborn]

But since I love javascript, I got this code that checks if the enter key is pressed even while focusing the text input, then unfocus it.

if (objects.length > 0) {
    const renderer = objects[0]._renderer;

    document.onkeypress = function(e) {
        e = e || window.event;
        const key = e.keyCode;
        if (key === 13) {
            renderer._input.blur();
        }
    }
}

[TyTyTyTy]

Im super new to gdevelop and programming in general but i think i figured out a way to do this
I set my text input to a text area and essentially instead of the event being for the return button my event is if the text input contains a new line (it doesnt show it well in the screenshot but its literally typed out as
"
"
)

my intention is a command line, so when the new line event happens it sets a global text variable (CurrentCommand) to the the text inputs string and then sets the text input to be empty

you might notice that the text input will still have that animation of moving to the next line, what i did was add a text box with a event that made it copy a 2nd global text variable (CurrentText), set the text input opacity to 1 (and moved it to the side) so that the text box is what looks like its typing and made an event that made the text input be constantly focused on (so theres not an issue with the user not being able to type in the text input)

[haunted-jug]

I just stumbled over this post while searching for a solution to the same problem (not being able to unfocus the input field). Like you, I didn’t want to force my players to use a mouse.

As this is quite an old thread, I’m sure I’m not the first person to find the solution, but just in case someone else struggles with text inputs and stumbles over this forum post, look for the “input is submitted” condition.

Here is how I used it in my current project:

I don’t know how long ago the “input is submitted” condition was added to GDevelop - it may have been added in response to lots of people looking for a solution…? In any case, I hope this helps someone.