Textbox

The Textbox supports entry of a simple, single-line string, with optional validation logic.

using GLMakie

f = Figure()
Textbox(f[1, 1], placeholder = "Enter a string...")
Textbox(f[2, 1], width = 300)

f

Validation

The validator attribute is used with validate_textbox(string, validator) to determine if the current string is valid. It can be a Regex that needs to match the complete string, or a Function taking a String as input and returning a Bool. If the validator is a type T (for example Float64), validation will be tryparse(string, T). The textbox will not allow submitting the currently entered value if the validator doesn't pass.

using GLMakie

f = Figure()

tb = Textbox(f[2, 1], placeholder = "Enter a frequency",
    validator = Float64, tellwidth = false)

frequency = Node(1.0)

on(tb.stored_string) do s
    frequency[] = parse(Float64, s)
end

xs = 0:0.01:10
sinecurve = @lift(sin.($frequency .* xs))

lines(f[1, 1], xs, sinecurve)

f