TextField eats all keys as of 3.4.0

Questions & Answers
1

This code appears to no longer work:

unity3d.com - GUI.GetNameOfFocusedControl documentation (uses Return key to confirm a text field as alternative to a button)

It seems now that TextField eats all keys (even releasing of Shift and Ctrl, messing up their states).

Any ideas for workarounds? This is making my game unusable every time I show a TextField. Is there some new input method support or something that I can turn off to maybe avoid whatever added this bug?

2

I found Input.eatKeyPressOnTextFieldFocus:

Input.eatKeyPressOnTextFieldFocus = false;

Since TextField doesn’t even correctly restore state of CTRL, you basically have to do this if you use Shift or Ctrl state in your game.

3

More specific to the exact question:

I think you may need Event.Use

void Use();
Description
Use this event.

Call this method when you’ve used an event. The event’s type will be set to EventType.Used, causing other GUI elements to ignore it.

 if (Event.current.isKey) {

            switch (Event.current.keyCode) {

                case KeyCode.Return:

                case KeyCode.KeypadEnter:

                val = editingValue;

                applying = true;

                Event.current.Use();    // Ignore event I used it

                break;

            }

        }