CaptureFocus() Creates a Space in TextBox when Called

[Generic0001 (gen)]

Hello, I have been trying to fix this bug for a while now. I am making a custom Admin Command Prompt. Whenever I call CaptureFocus() for a TextBox, it creates a space inside the called TextBox. This not only makes my UI look bad, but it makes the commands unable to be called (unless the player presses backspace and removes the space, or unless I were to allow commands with a space in the front). Everything I have tried does not remove the space.

I have tried all of the following:

String.sub
Re-Defining the string ex: TextBox.Text = ""
Enabling ClearTextOnFocus

The conclusion that I have come up with, is that this is a Studio Bug. Still, I am not quite sure.

This post is extremely similar to the one below, but the conclusion drawn in that post was leaving the space, and moving the CursorPosition.

Textbox:CaptureFocus() creating a space after the text when called

Hello everyone ! I’m currently trying to make my own chat with admin command included. As i’m using the enter key to open the chat, i need to use :CaptureFocus(). The problem is :CaptureFocus() seems to always add a space to the text, even if i said nothing. I even tried to do TextBox.Text = “” after the :CaptureFocus() but it doesn’t seem to work. I would love if someone could tell me how i could remove this space at the start. So when i do :CaptureFocus(), it’d be just “” and not " ". Why do…

Any help on removing this pesky space would be greatly appreciated.

[Lord_Monever (Sick)]

Hey !

I have actually found a solution for my problem. To access my chat, i was using a keydown event which was, for some mysterious reason, actually causing this bug. I switched to keyup and the bug disappeared. I found a post about this but can’t seem to find it back

Could this solve your problem ?

PS : I found it CaptureFocus in InputBegan handler is causing the TextBox.Text to also equal the key that was pressed on - #2 by buildthomas

[Generic0001 (gen)]

Well, unless I could circumvent the action of FocusLost when the player presses Enter, I couldn’t really create a keydownevent for the enter key. Because pressing enter inside of a textbox causes the focus to be lost in the first place, how would I be able to have a keydown event for the same key? Hope that made sense.

[Generic0001 (gen)]

But, to add onto this, a reply within that post poses a very good solution. @buildthomas mentions that you can wait until the next frame before capturing focus, so that the input doesn’t influence the contents of the activated textbox.

CaptureFocus in InputBegan handler is causing the TextBox.Text to also equal the key that was pressed on

game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(function(input, GPE) if GPE then return end if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Slash or input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.T then Box:CaptureFocus() end end) Pressing the slash or T puts a / or T into the text box. Same problem occurs here, however solution wouldn’t work in my case as using InputService (don’t particularly wanna change)