How to make an EditableText consume keyboard input?

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I want all keyboard events to be captured (and terminated) by my EditableText when it is focused. However, currently, it triggers functions from other widgets. I tried all checkboxes in the widget panel…

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Does it still happen when you override onKeyDown and pass Handled?

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How can I override onKeyDown? Should I create a derived class from the EditableText?

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Do you mean this? This doesn’t work. The game still takes keyboard inputs.

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Yeah, that’s what I meant. So, hold on - you can type in the Editable Box and the input bubbles to other widgets? Sounds implausible but here we are.

How can I override onKeyDown ?

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However, currently, it triggers functions from other widgets.

This parts confuses me. Since you weren’t sure how to even capture a key in the first place, how are you actually detecting keypresses in the other widgets?! Normally you’d do it with onKeyDown while the widget has focus.

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What you suggested solves the issue. Thank you for your answer

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This happens to me in 5.3 editable text box, set focus, while I’m typing in it, events (like those on my player controller bound to letters) get called and typing a ’ also pulls up that AI info stuff that you can call in the editor.

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