Cascades Development

[bbj]

The Gold SDK claims to support max text length limits on a text editor.

It appears this feature has only been added to a TextArea object instead of say at the AbstractTextControl level - with the consequence that single line text editors - a TextField object - still dont support a pretty basic requirement of limiting the text entered by a user.

Can anyone confirm a TextField still has no way of limiting the number of characters a user can enter ?

[peter9477]

It's correct that the docs and header files don't have this.

Conceivable that the actual relevant code exists in the library, but I haven't checked that yet.

Likely you're right. :-(

[blackqtcoder]

Confirmed, the QML property  "maximumLength" only works with TextArea.

TextField rejects this property

[bobdodd]

I wonder why they've done it that way? As you say, it's at the wrong level of inheritance.

The only solution for now will be to capture keypresses and do your own field validation I guess.

[tommy20]

Where can we raise a request ticket for this feature?

While waiting for this feature, we can use a validator: https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/documentation/ui/text/handling_input.html