Changes to attributes like password and mask-character won't be visible immediately

Unity Engine
1

Hi there,

when changing attributes like password of the TextInputBaseField via callbacks the change is not visible immediately. In my case I have to hover the field before the change is applied.

I’m just using a TextField with password=true but wanted to have a show/hide toggle next to it. So I’m using the toggle callback to toggle the password attribute but this is not working as expected and as I said the change is not visible before hovering the TextField.
Other attributes like label will change immediately using the same callback.

Is this a bug or do some attributes require special care? Tried some dirty flags (MarkDirtyRepaint on the TextField) but that didn’t change anything in my case.

Thanks in advance.
Felix

2

This clearly sounds like a bug. Can you file a report in the editor via Help->Report a bug…

In the meantime, maybe invalidating the textField’s inner children will help workaround the issue:

foreach(var child in myTextField.Children())
{
   child.MarkDirtyRepaint();
}
1 Like
3

Hi thanks again @uMathieu - your workaround does the trick. Bug report is send.

1 Like