UI Text Input

Single-line text field with placeholder; raises submitted and value_changed.

Type: UITextInputNode · Category: UI & Interface · Also found as: uitextinput

Properties

Property	Type	Default	Description
size	vec2	(360, 28)	Width and height (px). Range 4 to 1280.
label	string	"Input"	Caption shown next to the control.
labelWidth	number	130	Width reserved for the label (px); 0 = none. Range 0 to 300.
maxLength	integer	64	Most characters accepted. Range 1 to 255.

Plus the common properties every node has.

Lua methods

Call them on the node (self.node in its script, or self.node:get_node("path")). Every node also has the Node methods.

UITextInputNode:connect(event, handler)

Connects a handler to one of this node’s events: value_changed (The value changed), submitted (Enter was pressed); the tree events; custom ones.

self.node:connect("value_changed", function(value, source) Log.info("value_changed") end)

• event UITextInputNodeEvent|string
• handler fun(value: any, source: UITextInputNode)

Returns integer id Connection id for disconnect

UITextInputNode:get_property(path)

Reads an Inspector property by its path (vectors and colours as tables); “script.” reads a field of the node’s script.

local value = self.node:get_property("size")

• path UITextInputNodeProperty|string

Returns any

UITextInputNode:set_property(path, value, y)

Sets an Inspector property by its path: vectors as {x, y} or x, y; colours as {r, g, b[, a]} 0..1 or “#rrggbb[aa]”; enums by name; “script.” a field of the node’s script.

self.node:set_property("size", 100, 50)

• path UITextInputNodeProperty|string
• value any
• y? number

In a scene file

{
  "type": "UITextInputNode",
  "name": "UITextInput",
  "position": [
    0,
    0
  ],
  "properties": {
    "size": [
      360,
      28
    ],
    "label": "Input",
    "labelWidth": 130
  }
}