Add TextEdit.virtual_keyboard_type like LineEdit.virtual_keyboard_type

[acgc99]

Describe the project you are working on

A mobile app to track user progress in exercise.

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project

I found that for numeric inputs, LineEdit.virtual_keyboard_enabled and LineEdit.virtual_keyboard_type are useful. Although TextEdit.virtual_keyboard_enabled exists, TextEdit.virtual_keyboard_type doesn't.

I want a TextEdit with a numeric keyboard.

Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

Add TextEdit.virtual_keyboard_type like LineEdit.virtual_keyboard_type.

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams

Add that option in the inspector and via code.

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

I don't know.

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?

For completeness.

[Calinou]

I want a TextEdit with a numeric keyboard.

Out of curiosity, what do you need a purely numeric (multi-line) TextEdit for? Is this for a field where you're expected to write one number per line, or something like that?

[acgc99]

Out of curiosity, what do you need a purely numeric (multi-line) TextEdit for? Is this for a field where you're expected to write one number per line, or something like that?

That's the point!

I think this proposal could be useful if you want multiple numbers in different rows, instead of multiple LineEdit, a single TextEdit. This will probably be more used in apps, not games, for example, an app that displays data.

I don't think I'm going to use this directly in my app now (I don't know in the future) but this is related to a plugin I made to workaround my proposal #7193.

The plugin is FilteredEdits. I'm doing some work these days to fix and document bugs and limitations and add new features. From the begging, I added the functionality to clamp FilteredLineEdit text value (extends LineEdit). For generalizing, I recently worked to clamp values in FilteredTextEdit (extends TextEdit) line by line.

FilteredTextEdit will try to refuse characters accoding to its filter_mode. Let's asusme it is +0i so you can only type positive integers and zero. If the user types too fast, letters might pass the filter, I think this is because signals are emitted faster that the filtering method is called. One way to avoid this partially, is to use a numeric virtual keyboard.