TextField displaying input backwards

Unity Engine
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Hi there,
Ive made a windwow using Unity GUI for my in-game chat and my textField is behaving in a strange manner:

Sometimes (seems randomly) it receives my input and displays it backwards, so if i type “test 1 2 3” it displays “3 2 1 tset” - the cursor stays still at the first position of the TextFIeld. This strange behaviour stops when i close/open the window again (and comes again in a “random” ocasion).

Im sure that the window wich the TextField is contained have an unique WindowID, and i set the focus (using GUI.FocusControl) to this TextField only once, when the window is opened.

my text field:

		GUI.SetNextControlName ("MessageField");
		m_inputMessage = GUI.TextField(l_textFieldRect, m_inputMessage,maxLength);

any ideas are welcome.

thanks!

2

Looks like a bug to me,

you could reassemble that issue in a small project and send it to the developers + descriptions on how trigger that.

3

BUMP

This is an old thread, but the bug was never fixed, twice now I’ve had this exact same problem. Once in the Unity editor and had to restart unity to fix it, and just now in my published web app in browser, restarting the browser did not fix this.

What’s interesting is it only will happen to the last text field in a window, and only occasionally but once it starts it won’t stop. Not sure if that will help devs in finding it. I can’t submit a project to repeat this, because there’s no way I can find the exact way to replicate it. It truly is random(Which I know is impossible, but it might as well be.)

All I can suggest is usually the more complex the gui the more likely it is to happen. In my project there are roughly 6 draggable windows and probably 20 to 30 text fields across those windows.

4

I’m getting this in two GUIs, one that’s very complex (it contains a few GUI elements for each of a user’s facebook friends, so it can be hundreds of elements) and one that’s just a window with a textbox and a button in it.

I’m not sure how to specifically repro this, sometimes restarting the app will fix it, other times the bug persists.

5

Are you using the latest version of Unity?

6

Guys,

in general, if you think you have found a bug in Unity, please send us a bug report that includes your project (or a cut down one) that shows the issue. One of my QA team can then investigate for you, and if we can reproduce the problem we can get Development to fix it.

(I have searched our bug database and didn’t get any hits on this issue.)

Thanks,
Graham

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I upgraded from 2.6.0 to 2.6.2 and I haven’t seen the issue again yet.

8

got same bug few minutes ago… digged forum, seems like this is known problem, still no1 knows how to fix it!

9

The bug database still doesn’t seem to have a record of this bug. It would be great if you could file a report for it (menu: Help > Report A Problem) and include a project that demonstrates the bug.

10

i couldn’t report a bug due to weird proxy settings on my work, though i never had that issue again. it is truly a mystery :?
but i remember that restarting unity solved the problem for me. i’ll send bug report from home when this problem will occur again.

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I had a similar problem occur if you have a GUILayout.TextField then a GUILayout.TextArea the TextArea will not operate correctly showing the described behavior. I fixed this by putting in a second GUILayout.TextArea between the two that is one pixel wide add drawing with an invisible style.