Text input with Cocos Creator?

Cocos Creator
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The cocos2d-html5 project I’m trying to ‘convert to’ Cocos Creator was using EditBox to input text.

I didn’t find any mention of EditBox in the Cocos Creator API ( http://cocos2d-x.org/docs/api-ref/creator/v0.71/ ), but some examples are using it, like example-cases:
https://github.com/cocos-creator/example-cases
(specifically in https://github.com/cocos-creator/example-cases/tree/master/assets/cases/02_ui/07_editBox)

I was unable to create a EditBox - if I do:

var box, boxSize;

boxSize = cc.size(128, 32);
box = new cc.EditBox(boxSize, new cc.Scale9Sprite(self.editBoxSprite));

I get the following error message: cc.EditBox is not a constructor

Is EditBox available with Cocos Creator ?
If yes, how can I use it?
If no, how am I supposed to get input from the user (I need the user to input texts, and numbers) ?

I just checked the roadmap and EditBox is mentioned for 2016.3, which mean it will be available very soon: COOL !!!

Is there some github repository where I can get latest Cocos Creator modifications without having to wait the official release?
(I need to finish my project before next week…)

Thanks.

—
Daniel

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The Editbox is already supported in dev version, that’s why you can see it in the example cases, but it wasn’t available with 0.7.

The engine repo is public now: https://github.com/cocos-creator/engine (Star, star, star, please)

But the problem here is that v0.7 don’t permit you to modify the engine in Creator, this functionality is also provided only in v1.0

But I guess I can give you access to the beta version if you are interested.

3

That would be really great, I’m VERY interrested ! :wink:
(be sure I will use it, check and report any problem I might found)

–
Daniel

4

Sent to you via PM

If anyone else is interested in testing the beta version, please contact me

5

That’s fantastic, thank you VERY MUCH!!

Do you want me to report any eventual bug or suggestion on the forums or via PM?

–
Daniel

6

Via forum is ok, thanks !

By the way, if you can write a review about the new version and publish it on the forum, we will really appreciate it

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I don’t have the time right now to write a full review of Cocos Creator, sorry, but I will make a new topic where I will share my first impressions about it, and will update that topic each time I discover something.

I will also post the problem(s) I may encounter and the solution(s) I may find (I already had some related to installation of the Mac OS X version).

Thanks again for having made available this great tool!

–
Daniel

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