Post by manta ray in Textbox broken on Desktop also?

Viewing post in Textbox broken on Desktop also?

Hi, I think the issue is you're passing a Gamemaker constant to setCursorColor instead of a Scribble color tag, which in turn is printing the color number as part of the blinking cursor text, possibly hiding the text.

I assume you're using 2025.11 and latest Gamemaker, but let me know.

For reference this is the corrected code, which only changes setCursorColor, I added a modal panel and a grid like you said, and the textbox to a grid cell:

var _panel = new UIPanel("Panel", 0,  0, 500, 400, grey_panel, UI_RELATIVE_TO.MIDDLE_CENTER); _panel.setModal(true); 
var _grid = new UIGrid("Grid", 3, 3); _panel.add(_grid); 
var _seedInput = new UITextBox("seedInput", 0, 16, 148, 24, blue_button00, 8); with (_seedInput)    {
    setAllowDigits(true);
    setAdjustHeight(false);
    setMultiline(false);
    setPlaceholderText("0");
    setCursorChar("_");
    setCursorColor("[c_white]");
    setReadOnly(false);
    setTextAnchor(UI_RELATIVE_TO.MIDDLE_CENTER);
    setInheritWidth(true);
    setCallback(UI_EVENT.VALUE_CHANGED, function() {
        show_debug_message(ui_get("seedInput").getText());
    });
}
_grid.addToCell(_seedInput, 1, 1);

This is the result:

Let me know if you have more problems.

hamrath9 days ago

Your code works fine, thanks!

Therefore I could narrow down the problem. It's how my game handles views. I'm using an extension for that and as soon as I disable it the text input works. I played around with the size of the panel and it seems that the offset is calculated wrong. I'll investigate and report later.

manta ray9 days ago

Thanks do let me know after you research to see if there's something to be modified or improved. One thing you might want to check out is how the scissoring function interacts with your extension and or your game; you can disable scissoring if you're using the latest version, and revert to using surfaces, which is the way I handled clipping before, and compare. There's a configuration macro in the config script where you can do that.

hamrath8 days ago

Yes, I'm using the latest version and disabling scissors actually helps. I'm using REZOL from Foxy Of Jungle btw.

manta ray7 days ago

Good to know, thanks.

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Viewing post in Textbox broken on Desktop also?