UiTextInputBus strange behavior

Question

Guys, since version 1.8 I have seen this issue but I am not sure if I am using this bus correctly.

Whenever I call UiTextInputBus.Event.SetText(entId, str), the text string is placed in the input field but it does not show up.

The only way to make it appears is to have a whitespace in the field before I call it. But for fields that the user is editing is a little bit annoying because I have to track all the events to left a whitespace there.

What am I doing wrong?

Tks!

Accepted Answer

Thanks @REDACTEDUSER

In the meantime, you can fix this by adding the following line to UiTextInputComponent.cpp:

```
m_childTextStateDirtyFlag = true;
```
Add that line to the following functions (at the beginning is fine):

```
void UiTextInputComponent::SetText(const AZStd::string& text)
void UiTextInputComponent::SetTextEntity(AZ::EntityId textEntity)
void UiTextInputComponent::SetPlaceHolderTextEntity(AZ::EntityId textEntity)
```

Answer

Apologies - I actually didn't realize there was a SetText method directly available on the UiTextInputBus. I'll look into this a little more to see what's going on!

Answer

tks! it is working!

Answer

I think there's an issue with how the text input component updates when its text element value changes. I'm investigating this and will update once I have more information!

Answer

Hi @REDACTEDUSER

```
textEntity = UiTextInputBus.Event.GetTextEntity(textInputEntityId)
UiTextBus.Event.SetText(textEntity, "Hello world!")
```
Here are the Lua script reference pages for UiTextInputBus and UiTextBus:

[http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/latest/developerguide/lua-scripting-ces-api-ui-uitextinputcomponent.html](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/latest/developerguide/lua-scripting-ces-api-ui-uitextinputcomponent.html)

[http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/latest/developerguide/lua-scripting-ces-api-ui-uitextcomponent.html](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/latest/developerguide/lua-scripting-ces-api-ui-uitextcomponent.html)

Hope that helps!

Answer

Great! Thank you for confirming that it's working for you now. We'll include that fix in a future release.

Answer

Fixed in [1.12](https://github.com/aws/lumberyard/blame/1.12/dev/Gems/LyShine/Code/Source/UiTextInputComponent.cpp#L875), thanks.

UiTextInputBus strange behavior

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