Change in Kivy ver. 2.3.1 for TextInput?

[Radosław Głębicki]

Hi. Example of TextInput without ScrollView:

#! /usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from kivy.uix.floatlayout import FloatLayout
from kivy.uix.textinput import TextInput
from kivy.clock import Clock
from kivy.app import runTouchApp
from kivy.core.window import Window

sTxt1234 = """sdfkgtu soif sdoifu sdoiuf oisdufoi usdoifusdoiuf oisduf oisdufoiusdoi ufsdi fSPossdu
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"""

Window.size = (400,300)
koTxt = TextInput(text = sTxt1234, size_hint = (.95,.95), pos_hint={"center_x": .5, "center_y": .5},
  multiline = True, do_wrap = False,)
koTxt.focus = True

Clock.schedule_once(lambda _: setattr(koTxt,'cursor',(0,0)),.01)

runTouchApp(koTxt)
quit()

I was using ScrollView to move TextInput during cursor move. Now I see it is happen automatically like in example above. This is new or I did not understood something before?

Radek Glebicki

PS.: can I find somewhere changes for TextInput?

[elli...@cox.net]

That behavior has been around for as long as I can remember.  

To see changes for TextInput you could look at the changelog: https://kivy.org/doc/stable/changelog.html

Or look at the source code on github and use blame to see when a line of code changed.  https://github.com/kivy/kivy/blame/master/kivy/uix/textinput.py

 

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[Radosław Głębicki]

Hi.

"That behavior has been around for as long as I can remember."

Wow. So why am I always using TextInput inside ScrollView?

Believe me. I look on working TextInput and I think why am I using ScrollView? But maybe to move around with touch/mouse? Maybe because of that.

Ok Thanks.