Can't get TextField to show up when targeting platform other than Flash

[Will Maynard]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Haxe and have been racking my brain trying to figure out why I can't get a simple TextField to display.  

I'm running Windows 7 and using IntelliJ for an IDE.

Below is my code:

package ;

import flash.display.Sprite;

class Main extends Sprite
{
   public function new()
   {
      super();

      var output = new flash.text.TextField();
      output.defaultTextFormat = new flash.text.TextFormat("Arial", 24, 0x006600);
      output.text = "\n\nHello, World!";
      output.height = output.width = 200;
      this.addChild(output);
   }
}

This code works fine when targeting Flash, but as soon as I target Windows or Neko, the output is completely blank.  There are no errors, and the TextField can be found by printing out children along with all of its properties, but for the life of me I can't get it to display.  I can draw shapes and images, but not text.

What are my options?

[Nathan Hüsken]

Hey,

maybe try an older version of lime or openfl? Here with lime 2.2.2 and
openfl 2.2.8 it works!

Best,
Nathan

[Rafael Oliveira]

It seems you are using OpenFL, it's good specify which library you are using.

There is a sample to using textfields, you can create with:

openfl create AddingText

Check if you have openfl 3.0.0-beta.3 and lime 2.3.0.

You can modify the textfield to accept input, but it's only woking if you test with "openfl test neko -Dlegacy", because it isn't implemented yet in the default mode (is in a beta stage). 

[Will Maynard]

Hey Nathan,

Sure enough, lime 2.2.2 and openfl 2.2.8 did the trick!

Thanks!

[Joshua Granick]

There are also improvements to text in the "next" code just released in the versions on haxelib :)

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