Multiple carets showing up on GUI text edit

[eschan145]

I'm making my own GUI toolkit using the Python Arcade library. Quite recently I found out that the TextInput widget isn't working. No text is displayed and the caret also isn't displayed. I know other than that it's working properly, as I was able to get some text that the user typed. But it isn't displaying.

I looked at the examples for the arcade GUI widgets and added a TextInput widget, but even that didn't draw correctly. In pyglet, its working correctly. I was able to run the text_input example without any bugs.

EDIT: The default text is being displayed, but the user can't type any additional text

[eschan145]

Actually I found out that I had maded changes to the Python arcade code, which made drawing incorrect. I reinstalled the Python arcade and Pyglet libraries and found that it is working now.

[eschan145]

But there's a problem. On a Windows 11, when you highlight some text, I get an extra caret. So if I highlight text three times, I would have seven carets.

[eruvanos]

Could somebody check if this issue still exists on Windows 11?

[einarf]

I don't see this in Win11. What do you mean by extra caret? Visually or some internal object.

These things are REALLY hard to reproduce unless you supply a minimal runnable example.

[eschan145]

I don't have time to check it now, but it was visual. The carets kept on being duplicated in the TextInput, although only one of them would work.

[einarf]

I think this is getting fixed in pyglet master branch now.

[eruvanos]

Agree, we can reopen it, if it reappears.