Text Field

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The Text Field widget provides a box for editable plain text. Unicode, multiline, cursor navigation, selection and clipboard features are supported.

Properties

Unique properties of the Text Field

Widget

Adjust these properties to customize the opacity of the widget

Properties

Opacity

• Controls the opacity of the widget

  Floating Point variable, defaults to 1.0
  

Rotation Angle

• Controls the rotation of the widget

  Floating point variable, defaults to 0.0
  

  min:0.0
  

  max:360.0
  

Layout

Adjust these properties to customize the dimensions of the Text Field relative to the screen

Properties

Fill

• Controls if the widget should stretch to fill the available space or not

  Boolean variable, defaults to False
  

Text

Adjust the text properties

Properties

Initial text

• Controls the text displayed on the widget

  String variable, defaults to an empty string
  

Text hint

• Hint the text of the widget

  String variable, defaults to "Write here"
  

Can have multiple lines

• If True, the widget will be able show multiple lines of text. If False, the “enter” keypress will defocus the textinput instead of adding a new line

  Boolean variable, defaults to False
  

Font size

• Font size of the text in pixels

  Floating Point variable, defaults to 15.0
  

Write tab

• Whether the tab key should move focus to the next widget or if it should enter a tab in the TextInput. If True a tab will be written, otherwise, focus will move to the next widget.

  Boolean variable, defaults to False
  

Text Color

• Controls the color of the text

Selected Text Color

• Controls the color of the selected text

Password

If True, the widget will display its characters as the character set in password

Properties

Password character

• Set a Password

Is true

• Choose to have a Password

  Boolean variable, defaults to False
  

Background

Adjust these properties to customize the color of the background

Properties

Background Color

• Controls the background color of the text field

Underline Style

Adjust the underline color of the text field

Properties

Underline Color Unfocused

• Adjust the underline color of the text field while unfocused

Underline Color Focused

• Adjust the underline color of the text field while focused