How to detect when a new line is made on a TextBox?

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#1

I came up with a script to detect when new lines are made, however after a new line is made, i could not figure out how to make the script ignore it after the player types in more stuff:

script.Parent.TextBox:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Text"):Connect(function()
if string.find(script.Parent.Frame.ScrollingFrame.ScriptReader.Text,"\n") ~= nil then
print("NEW LINE")
end
end)

Any solutions on how to make this ignore lines after they have been made would be very appreciated!

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#2

You can use text service to find the size of the text in pixels
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/function/TextService/GetTextSize

#3

Why not just turn off the MultiLine property of the textbox and listen to FocusLost instead?

local textbox = script.Parent.TextBox
textbox.FocusLost:Connect(function(e)
    if e then
        local textTheyTyped = textbox.Text
        --do whatever with it
        textbox:CaptureFocus() --if ClearTextOnFocus is false, set Text to "" beforehand
    end
end)
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#4

Combine some functions from UserInputService to achieve this

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(k)
   if k.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Return then
      local textBox = UserInputService:GetFocusedTextBox()
      if textBox then
          --user pushed enter on a text box
      end
   end
end)
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