iOS 14 seems to have broken StageTextTextEditor.multiline

crooksy88

Hi,

After updating the iOS on their iPhone to 14 a user has identified a bug which crashes the app on textfield selection.

Everything else works as expected including being able to update the textfield (via a spinner selection for example).

If I change the multiline to false and select the textfield there is no crash.

It's only when the editor is set to multiline and the textfield is selected that the app crashes.

private var _keyfeatureInput:TextInput;

_keyfeatureInput.textEditorFactory = function():ITextEditor {				
    var editor:StageTextTextEditor = new StageTextTextEditor();
    editor.textAlign = "left";
    editor.fontFamily = FONT_LIGHT;
    editor.fontSize = 30;
    editor.multiline = true;
    editor.softKeyboardType = "default";
    editor.returnKeyLabel = ReturnKeyLabel.DONE;
    editor.autoCapitalize = AutoCapitalize.WORD;
    return editor;
}

Would anyone have any ideas how to go about fixing this?

Thanks,

Mark

joshtynjala

crooksy88 It sounds like something in iOS has changed, and HARMAN is going to need to fix it in flash.text.StageText.

joshtynjala

This post in the Starling forum mentions a crash when using TextArea too. TextArea does not use StageText. It supports only TextField. So it seems that any multiline input text created by AIR crashes on iOS.

crooksy88

Thanks Josh for your very much appreciated continuing support. After painstakingly picking apart my app the issue seems to lie with a conflict between the Distriqt Dialog ANE. If I remove this the issue goes away.

Of course this was the very last thing that I removed from the app!!

joshtynjala

I would not have expected this crash to be caused by an ANE. Especially one that doesn't seem related to text. Glad you figured it out!