Detecting if any text input is active

[goaaats]

Version/Branch of Dear ImGui:
Version: 1.87
Branch: master

Back-end/Renderer/Compiler/OS
Back-ends: custom C# backend, but issue isn't backend related
Operating System: Linux

My Issue/Question:
I'm implementing an utility app that has users entering a lot of text - I'm planning to deploy this app on tablets and devices such as the Steam Deck, which have APIs that let developers bring up/position software keyboards when users start editing input boxes, and dismiss them when they go out of focus.

I have been looking for a way to implement this with ImGui without having to use internals - is there any chance of an official API? Is there a workaround I'm missing that doesn't require me adding special handling to all of my input boxes?

Something I tried was to use io.WantCaptureKeyboard, however, my app also depends on keyboard navigation, which will of course cause that to always return true.

Thank you!

Sample/example:

[...]
if (ImGui::GetIO().AnyTextInputActive && !lastFrameTextInputActive) {
	ShowSoftwareKeyboard()
[...]

[ocornut]

Something I tried was to use io.WantCaptureKeyboard

The line right under io.WantCaptureKeyboard is:

bool  WantTextInput;  // Mobile/console: when set, you may display an on-screen keyboard. This is set by Dear ImGui when it wants textual keyboard input to happen (e.g. when a InputText widget is active).

This also answered in the FAQ:
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md#q-how-can-i-tell-whether-to-dispatch-mousekeyboard-to-dear-imgui-or-my-application

[goaaats]

That works fine, apologies - somehow my IDE and Google must've failed me. Hope this gets indexed for whomever is looking for this in the future.

Thank you for your work!

[ocornut]

No worries, good to have more indexing and redundancy.

I really wonder how featureful are other IDE. I use VS2019 and I can Alt+G my way (even from inside comments) to find symbols. I worry that some IDE may not be able to follow symbols mentioned in comments, or people are misusing them.

[PathogenDavid]

I can Alt+G my way (even from inside comments) to find symbols

This is a Visual Assist thing, but for anyone using vanilla Visual Studio: Ctrl+T or Ctrl+Comma does something similar.

I worry that some IDE may not be able to follow symbols mentioned in comments, or people are misusing them.

As far as I know VSCode doesn't have a feature like this, so that's at least one that doesn't.

Ctrl+T kinda works in Rider (you have to select the whole symbol name first), I'd assume other JetBrains products like CLion to be similar.

I suspect even for IDEs which do have it, a lot of people don't know about it and use something like grep instead. (It definitely doesn't help that F12 doesn't work in comments for any IDE that I'm aware of.)