Change InputText programmatically when pressing a button (keep InputText state and insert character at the cursor position) #5219

mihaibv123 · 2022-04-20T07:00:29Z

I have a problem with an ImGui::InputText for which I would like to change the text displayed by using a Virtual Keyboard (also created with ImGui). I have a window containing the InputText and another one containing the virtual keyboard (both inside an SDL window).

When I press the buttons on the virtual keyboard I change the buffer I attached to the InputText by adding a character at the end of it. Is there a nicer way to alter the InputText content by taking into account also the position of the cursor inside it and keeping the state of the input text cursor?

I'm a newbie here, sorry if I didn't follow all the guidelines for this question.

@kudaba

Very highly requested feature (#6962, #5219, #3290, #4627, #5054, #3878, #2881, #1506, #1216, #968). Also useful for interactive completion/selection popups (#2057, #718) Based on @kudaba PR. Design for Inputtext V2 should make this obsolete.

ocornut added the inputtext label Apr 20, 2022

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Change InputText programmatically when pressing a button (keep InputText state and insert character at the cursor position) #5219

Change InputText programmatically when pressing a button (keep InputText state and insert character at the cursor position) #5219

mihaibv123 commented Apr 20, 2022

Change InputText programmatically when pressing a button (keep InputText state and insert character at the cursor position) #5219

Change InputText programmatically when pressing a button (keep InputText state and insert character at the cursor position) #5219

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mihaibv123 commented Apr 20, 2022