TextEdit

import { TextEdit } from "std-widgets.slint";
export component Example inherits Window {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    TextEdit {
        font-size: 14px;
        width: parent.width;
        height: parent.height;
        text: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,\n consectetur adipisici elit";
    }
}

Run in Slintpad

Similar to LineEdit, but can be used to enter several lines of text

Properties

• font-size (in length): the size of the font of the input text
• text (in-out string): The text being edited
• has-focus: (in_out bool): Set to true when the widget currently has the focus
• enabled: (in bool): Defaults to true. When false, nothing can be entered
• read-only (in bool): When set to true, text editing via keyboard and mouse is disabled but selecting text is still enabled as well as editing text programmatically (default value: false)

wrap

type: enum TextWrap
default: the first enum value

TextWrap

This enum describes the how the text wrap if it is too wide to fit in the Text width.

• no-wrap: The text won’t wrap, but instead will overflow.
• word-wrap: The text will be wrapped at word boundaries if possible, or at any location for very long words.
• char-wrap: The text will be wrapped at any character. Currently only supported by the Qt and Software renderers.

The way the text wraps (default: word-wrap).

horizontal-alignment

type: enum TextHorizontalAlignment
default: the first enum value

TextHorizontalAlignment

This enum describes the different types of alignment of text along the horizontal axis of a Text element.

• left: The text will be aligned with the left edge of the containing box.
• center: The text will be horizontally centered within the containing box.
• right: The text will be aligned to the right of the containing box.

The horizontal alignment of the text.

• placeholder-text: (in string): A placeholder text being shown when there is no text in the edit field.

Functions

• focus() Call this function to focus the TextEdit and make it receive future keyboard events.
• clear-focus() Call this function to remove keyboard focus from this TextEdit if it currently has the focus. See also focus handling.
• set-selection-offsets(int, int) Selects the text between two UTF-8 offsets.
• select-all() Selects all text.
• clear-selection() Clears the selection.
• copy() Copies the selected text to the clipboard.
• cut() Copies the selected text to the clipboard and removes it from the editable area.
• paste() Pastes the text content of the clipboard at the cursor position.

Callbacks

• edited(string): Emitted when the text has changed because the user modified it
• rejected(): Emitted when the user pressed the escape key