Add support for up/down arrows to textboxes

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#1

As a developer, it is difficult to navigate between lines in a multiline textbox. Right now users can navigate left/right to go from character to character and between lines, but cannot go up/down between lines. In addition, up/down arrow key support cannot be easily added in Lua because when a TextBox is selected, it sinks all user input before it reaches Lua, making it impossible to detect the up/down arrow keys.

I ran into this problem while trying to make a multi-line text editor widget in Studio. I’m going to have to ditch TextBoxes altogether and write my own text area using TextLabels, the UserInputService, and the PluginMouse. I’ve submitted a couple bug reports related to this project found here:

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#4

Support, although this should only be possible if the MultiLine property is true. Otherwise, up/down arrows shouldn’t be an option.

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#5

This is still an big issue. MultiLine TextBoxes feel half baked without the ability to navigate up/down.

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#6

This was added! We can mark this as solved now. Thank you to the team behind this feature addition!

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