Input Field shows text as hilighted - make it stop

Unity Engine
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I have an input field which I activate when it is time for the user to start typing. I want them to type in newlines so I set it to mutli-line with new lines. Then I put a FINISHED button which takes the text, stores it, and ends the typing.

At first, I had to click in the input field to start typing, but when I hit FINISHED it worked correctly. I wanted to skip the click in the input field so I set the input field as selected with

EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject(letterInput.gameObject, null);

Then upon hitting FINISHED instead of having everything as typed, all the text that the user types in is hilighted. I don’t want it hilighted. I want it left alone.

So upon hitting FINISHED I tried

EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject(null);

(I also tried setting it to a different object with the same results).

The test is still showing up as hilighted. If I click in the input field, the hilight goes away but that’s also not ideal.

IDEALLY I would like to have the cursor in the input field as happens when call SetSelectedGameObject and then when I click finish the input field would just show the text as it was written rather than hilight it. How do I make that happen?

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call MoveTextEnd() after setting it selected.

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But it does not work! Is there any other method?

4

Do you solve this problem now? If yes, please send email dwp9123@qq.com . Thank you very much

5

Certainly not going to email you, but I have a couple of options.
First option is part of something else I once worked on, and it involved subclassing the inputfield, and in there, I called a coroutine which waited until the end of the frame and then did “MoveTextEnd(false)”. Guess you could also do this through an event, too.
Second option: Get TextMeshPro (free now from the asset store, and sometime soon integrated into Unity), which I’m 99% sure has the ability to turn that off right there as a checkbox :slight_smile: