Bug Report: edit_fields not committed when losing focus due to button click.

Question

SDK/UI should work the same on Mac as Windows - its nearly impossible to have a plugin on Mac where the user inputs into a text field, then clicks a button to do something with that text, since the text is only committed to the field via Tab. This makes it hard to write plugins in Windows that also work on Mac.

johnrellis · Answer

Sigh, now I understand the meaning of the documentation:

Creates an edit-field control, which accepts keyboard input when it has the input focus. User input is committed (that is, the value is updated) with every keystroke if immediate is true. If immediate is false, input is committed when the control loses focus. There is a platform difference in the focus behavior:

In Windows, the control loses focus when the user clicks outside it.
In Mac OS, it loses focus when the user uses Tab to shift the focus, not when the user clicks outside the control.

Since it's documented behavior, I would call this a "serious design flaw" rather than "bug". As you point out, you can't expect users to type tab after entering text!

Have you tried setting the "immediate" property? The documentation implies that user input is committed immediately.

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