Multiline textarea with style not working :(

Unity Engine
1

Help me with this and I will love you forever.

When I make a multiline textarea like this…

var stringToEdit : String = "Hello World\nI've got 2 lines...";

function OnGUI () 
{
stringToEdit = GUI.TextArea (Rect (10, 10, 200, 100), stringToEdit, 200);
}

…it works perfectly. (Well, of course it does, since it is straight copy and paste from the documentation).

  • But when I add a style like this…
var stringToEdit : String = "Hello World\nI've got 2 lines...";

var someStyle : GUIStyle;

function OnGUI () 
{
stringToEdit = GUI.TextArea (Rect (10, 10, 200, 100), stringToEdit, 200, someStyle);
}

…you can no longer use Enter/Return to make a new line break. I tried changing each style property at a time, but none seems to make it work. Can someone please help me?

2

My friend. Unfortunatelly no Unity developer does know what is going on inside of TextArea, DoTextField or other similar APIs… I spent a lot of time to get answer to a similar question without any positive result

3

This was recently reported as a bug (case 381509) but it isn’t fixed yet. You can actually type newlines in the textarea but you need to use alt+return, which is clearly incorrect behaviour.