Pressing esc key while TextBox is in focus exits fullscreen

This appears to affect all areas of the Roblox desktop app that utilize TextBoxes or open a web view. This works throughout the application whenever either a TextBox or when a web view is in focus. Both macOS and Windows appear to be affected by this tussle.

System information

  • MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2023)
  • Apple M2 Pro (12 core CPU, 19 core GPU)
  • 16GB RAM
  • 1TB SSD
  • macOS Sonoma v14.0 (23A344)
  • Roblox version 0.604.0.6040509

Reproduction Steps

  1. Open the Roblox desktop application and enter fullscreen mode (if not already in fullscreen)
  2. Inside the Roblox client, click on a TextBox (can be any TextBox element inside or outside of an experience)
  3. Press the esc key while the TextBox is in focus

Additional method to reproduce:

  1. Open the Roblox app and enter fullscreen mode (if not already in fullscreen)
  2. Navigate anywhere that a web view will appear (where the Roblox website pops up in the application, such as clicking on “groups” in the “…” tab.
  3. Press the esc key

After performing the final step with either reproduction method listed above, the Roblox application will exit fullscreen mode. A friend of mine was also able to successfully reproduce this issue on the Roblox desktop app on Windows following the same steps listed above.

Expected behavior

When pressing esc in experience, I expect it to remove focus from the currently focused TextBox and display the “Escape Menu” if there is no currently focused TextBox and not exit fullscreen mode.
Outside of experience, I expect that the focused TextBox will lose focus upon pressing esc and not exit fullscreen mode.

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This has been happening to me for about a month now and is extremely frustrating.
I hope this gets fixed.

Hey, so sorry for the late response here guys. The engineers are aware of this. We’ll get back to you when we have an update.

This is still happening and gets in the way when I try to exit a textbox. Especially when there is nowhere to click to get out of the textbox without triggering an unwanted action

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Ack! I’ll ask the team if they have an update.

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