Modal and popup TextEditor

General JUCE discussion
1

Hi Jules,

I use TextEditor in order to have a value popup editing for knob when you double click on it.

Works fine.
So far I am adding this TextEditor on the top level component so I can’t place it where I want and moreover the size I want.
Usually the TextEditor can be bigger than the knob itself.

My problem is when I have one of this knob in a modal component.
If I double click this knob, then the TextEditor do not receive any key events.

What would be the good way to solve this problem ?

I though that I could check for getCurrentlyModalComponent and add the TextEditor to it instead of the top level component, but what happens if my modal component is smaller than the TextEditor.

Thanks.

2

Are you using the latest tip? I was doing something similar last week in the new jucer, and ironed-out a couple of places where modal-in-modal components could cause problems.

3

I got something from the 13th of January so I will check with the latest one.

The thing is that the popup TextEditor itself is not modal.

Thanks,

4

Ah, well for it to get any keypresses, it’d need to either be modal itself, or to be inside the currently-modal component.

5

The latest tip do not change anything.

Will check if I can make it modal.

thanks,

6

Oh, I’ve had the same issue myself.
You probably want to have a look to Component::canModalEventBeSentToComponent().

Basically, you can give your text editor a specific name, or give the text editor reference to the knob, and overload the “can…Component” method to return true for the text editor.