Material: Programatically Set Text on TextField

[zgosalvez]

Setting textField.text programatically has some weird side effects on the titleLabel after interaction.

[danieldahan]

Can elaborate on what is the weird side effects?

[zgosalvez]

The title label does not appear

[danieldahan]

Are you setting a placeholder? I will try now.

[zgosalvez]

Yes, a placeholder is also set.

[danieldahan]

This is a confirmed bug. I will fix it today.

[posaninagendra]

@danieldahan yes we are also facing the same issue if we set text programmatically the title label disappears with a weird animation. If you could fix this it would be great.

[posaninagendra]

Hey, @danieldahan

After going through your code, I figured out that by setting the test field data programmatically the delegate methods are not getting invoked. Because of which the title label is not getting set.

Ex: When we type in text field the delegates are called and the title label is set, but when we set text like textField.text = "Something" then delegates are not called and title label is not set

[zgosalvez]

I tried doing the following "hack," but didn't work, probably because of race conditions with the animations.

textField.sendActionsForControlEvents(.EditingDidBegin)
textField.text = "something"
textField.sendActionsForControlEvents(.ValueChanged)
textField.sendActionsForControlEvents(.EditingDidEnd)

[danieldahan]

Yeah that would cause an issue. I am working on documentation for this release today with a fix.

[posaninagendra]

Hi @danieldahan,

We need this bug fixed very badly, how long does this take?

[danieldahan]

@mohpor @saipnc @zgosalvez Hi, I rewrote the TextField, under the temporary class MTextField and added an example of its usage in the Programmatic/TextField example project. My aim is to simplify the interface and have a cleaner code base going forward. @zgosalvez I have spent quite a bit of time making sure that it follows the spec as best as iOS can. There is a little more work to do, not much and then I can release it. I was hoping you guys would be able to take a look. I have also been working on a documentation site, which I will push later today.

Things to note:

• I have removed the default clearButton - found that conflicted with the iOS clearButton.
• I have simplified the API and want to keep it as minimal as possible.
• I have rethought the entire approach of dealing with TextFields and input animations.
• I need to add placeholder highlighting, formally known as title -> this should be an easy step.

Thanks guys, I will be finalizing this today, and then moving to AlertView, pulse animation, and SideNav.

This is all in the development branch.

[danieldahan]

@saipnc @zgosalvez please take part in this issue.

[danieldahan]

@saipnc You can now do this in the new TextField, temporary name MTextField, which is now in development. Please track any changes prior to release here 342. I am closing this issue to consolidate all TextField issues in 342.

[posaninagendra]

@danieldahan Thank you so much!