"Proper" GUI textbox with wrap-around?

[fernewelten]

Hello,

Seemingly, the standard GUI textbox can have any dimensions. However, no matter how large its height is, it will only accept text on one single line. I would have expected a way to configure the textbox so that long text wraps around and fills several lines, but alas, no dice.

I'd even hoped for a mechanism by which a textbox would accept a typed shift-return and convert it into '[' internally or at least accept a typed '[' and display it as a newline or at the very least accept a typed '[' and put a '[' into the Text string. Nope. It seems to simply gobble both shift-returns and '['s without further ado.

My mind boggles. I can't “wrap”  (pun intended) my mind around the fact that this sort of thing wouldn't have been implemented into the engine about a decade ago.    Anyway, never mind that. So, what would be the least painful way to get a "proper" textbox into a GUI that would wrap long text?

[Crimson Wizard]

Simpliest I can think of is a Label that accumulates pressed keys as text characters ( e.g using "%c" formatting ); and backspace deletes last character. You may add | character for a caret too (or any other).

[Khris]

Here's a module: TextArea v0.0.1.1 BETA - Multi-line textboxes!

[fernewelten]

Here's a module: TextArea v0.0.1.1 BETA - Multi-line textboxes!

Heh. That thread started in 2008, so I wasn't very far off with my estimate of "about a decade ago".  Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it.