PureBasic Forum

Hi,

Thanks so much for the input requester changes in 5.73 beta 3, but there are two problems:
You can no longer press enter on the edit box to submit/close the requester, which was very useful.
You can tab to the ok button and press space on it and submit it that way, but you can no longer just press enter on the field itself.
You also can't press escape anymore to dismiss/cancel/close the requester.
BTW it would be really nice if there was a way to distinguish between an empty requester being submitted with ok/enter, and requester being dismissed/canceled by closing the window.
Perhaps the requester could return #esc$ when canceled.

Thanks.

Fixed. About the cancel detection, if there is an empty string, it probably means it was closed with ESC.

Thanks a looot Fred!

This has been discussed before. It doesn't mean that necessarily. It could be a prompt with some pre-filled text and the user wants to clear that text (say for a filter). An empty string is just too confusing, and it's why I use my own InputRequester instead.

Is there a major reason it can't return Chr(27) when Esc is pressed or Cancel is clicked? It's then obvious to the coder what happened, and they can act accordingly. Nobody can type Chr(27) by mistake in normal use.

Also, and I've said this before, it needs to bigger and wider for today's HD monitors, because it's really too small to allow meaningful input.

I did the change to support DPI, so it should work now. About the escape detection, I will see what can be done.

Thank you, Fred. Appreciate it.

After looking at it, returning ESC keycode when cancelled will break all the current codes as they always test against "". May be a new flag could be added like 'PB_InputRequested_DetectCancel' or something which could return this if it's enabled.

That would work.
If you make flags an optional parameter, then code compatibility wouldn't be broken, too, and would allow for more possible flags in the future like preselecting the default text, so it could just be written over without having to manually delete it beforehand, etc.

honestly, any way that would allow differentiating between pressing enter/clicking ok with empty edit box versus canceling/closing the box would be very appreciated at the end of the day.