HTML in TextField and TextArea

[Descense]

Hi,

I’m currently trying to make a small text area that contains code you can edit and also has syntax highlighting. I have something that sort of works with OpenFL, which takes the text, does some pattern matching to add font color tags, and replaces the htmlText whenever the text changes. But I got completely lost when I tried to do something similar with HaxeUI components, since it looks like I only have access to the raw text of a TextField/TextArea. Is there any way to access the html text property of these components, like how it’s possible for labels?

I’ve seen a few alternatives, such as using haxeui-html5 or haxeui-hxwidgets backends and using haxeui-code-editor, but I’d like to stick to the OpenFL backend since the project I’m making this for uses it.

Thanks in advance

[rationaldecay]

You can access openfl’s textfield

Haxeui - selectable text

Hi, Sorry for the delay, been on holiday You may not need to expose it, you can access all the native (framework native) parts of a text field via: myTextArea.getTextInput().textField Note that if you use that then you are linked to openfl, ie, .textField may no exist on other backends, but if it does, it certainly wont be the same type - still it may be good for testing and something we can expose in a more backend-neutral way. Let me know how you get on Cheers, Ian

[ianharrigan]

As rationaldecay says, you can access the raw textfield (framework specific using the .getTextInput() call), i wonder if htmlText should also be exposed (like it is in Label)?

Also total side note, but if you manage to get a decent, shareable, code type editor i would love to add it to haxeui-code-editor for openfl