thunder-app
Comment text area stops accepting taps after formatting
Bug Description
Sometimes, when writing a markdown text, input area blinks grey and stops accepting taps, making it impossible to open a keyboard after previewing and complicating navigation.
Expected Behaviour
Text input area should always allow to tap for moving the caret position
Steps to Reproduce
- Start writing a comment
- Let it's length exceed one line
- Input
**for creating a bold text
Additional Context
It seems to never happen when formatted text is on the first line of the input
IIRC, it sometimes requires to also input the paired **, but it may be not necessary
It was happening before 0.4.0 but I was too lazy to report, sorry 😅
App Version
0.5.0-1
Device
Pixel 8 Pro
OS
Android 14, build AP2A.240605.024
Completely forgot to add the reproduction video:
https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/assets/5804169/69ccbd10-9d5c-4d98-91c5-94597ac0dc47
Thanks for the report!
I looked into this, and it seems like Flutter's spell checking is causing exceptions when you input ** characters. I'm not sure if there's any way to fix this except for waiting the fix upstream. For now, I can disable spell checking on the inputs.
Seems like this issue was already noted down upstream and there is a fix, but we have not yet upgraded to the Flutter version that contains that fix. See https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/1465#issuecomment-2185282875 for reference.
By the way, I just wanted to chime in here and mention that you can use the markdown toolbar to make a word bold, rather than explicitly typing the **. That might help to mitigate this issue!
Yes, I also noticed after reporting that using format buttons helps, it's just that a habit of inputting text manually is too strong 😅
Thank you, will look forward to an update