iced Multi-line text input

Multi-line text input

Open wesrer opened this issue 4 years ago • 9 comments

I am fairly new to iced, and have been trying to write some basic code to test the waters. I was just wondering if there is any easy way currently to have multi-line text input, because all the example code uses a single line input for TextInput.

Apr 24 '20 03:04 wesrer

No, there is no multi-line text input support yet. This is definitely planned, but I believe we will need to tackle #33 and #34 first.

If you want to join the discussion, I shared some of my thoughts in a Zulip thread:

This will be pretty hard (see Text Editing Hates You Too).

I believe it should be a new widget with a retained API on top of some interface for text editing (ropey may be worth considering). Proper cursor movement and multi-line text selection will be a challenge, specially if we want to support different scripts.

I feel like we should focus on rendering and layouting text properly first. The idea here would be replacing wgpu_glyph with a more GUI-oriented text renderer (i.e. with shaping). There are many parts of the Rust ecosystem that need to mature for this to happen, which means there are many opportunities for contributing!

Apr 25 '20 01:04 hecrj

I'm at the same point, looking for an easy, pure rust text editor widget ... my attempt to modify the current one wasn't fruitful so far ... I got multiple lines but everything else was off :sweat_smile:

Dec 16 '20 21:12 the-drunk-coder

easy, pure rust text editor widget

If that's all you want, both KAS and Druid have multi-line text boxes. Don't expect them to be perfect and I'm not sure about easy. Text is insanely complicated once you start digging into the subject.

Dec 17 '20 16:12 dhardy

How far along is at the moment?

Jul 26 '21 14:07 Dimev

@Dimev not sure, but I recommend that you be VERY patient.

Jul 28 '21 01:07 13r0ck

Hello, is there any progress on this issue? I would love to contribute to whatever needs help to get this issue moving. I see that #33 and #34 are mentioned in an above comment, where should I start?