EditBox / Input / Text editing

[yesnault]

Hi,

Is there an easy way to make an edit box with termui ?

Tks,

[gizak]

I think for now you have to do:

1. listen keyboard events
2. get every pressed key stored
3. put the captured char into the dataset of a component
4. refresh

Input widget is planed but we are not getting there yet, since there is an undergoing refactoring and only after this I will switch to the event system and new widgets :)

[weberc2]

+1

[mikepea]

I've got a basic implementation of a termui-based editbox working in https://github.com/mikepea/go-jira-ui

It's basically a port of the EditBox example code from termbox-go.

It's not in a state where it'd be contributable upstream (yet), but it'd be a reasonable base to use in your own projects. See ui_controls.go for how it's connected to the keyboard event handler.

[liushuchun]

yeah.I need this feature too.it's not easy to get the input text string in termui.

[brianbianco]

Any info of if this is still in the roadmap or not? I think this is a pretty essential feature.

[liushuchun]

I am also waiting for this basic feature.

[liushuchun]

hi all,I have solved this problem.
https://github.com/liushuchun/wechatcmd

[sapessi]

Hi all,

I have created a basic input component for termui, you can see it in my fork here: sapessi@71d140f

You can use it like this:

// first param is the string content, the second whether it should be multi-line or not
input := termui.NewInput("", true)
input.Height = termui.TermHeight()
input.BorderFg = termui.ColorYellow
// same properties as other Block
termui.Render(input)

// the StartCapture method tells the editor to begin listening for /sys/kbd events
input.StartCapture()

@gizak interested in a pull request?

Update
Made a few changes since the original commit, take a look at the file here: https://github.com/SAPessi/termui/blob/master/input.go

Also working on a dropdown component

[gizak]

@sapessi Hi pull requests are very welcome!

[sapessi]

Sent as pull requests #129