TextField crashing when selecting text

Haxe
#1

Hello,

I’ve noticed an issue that occurs with an openfl.textfield when selecting text. It no longer highlights the text, and instead just crashes the whole application. This only started happening after I updated openfl to 8.9.5 (from 8.9.0), so I do not think it is my own code. Reverting to 8.9.0 results in the bug disappearing, so it is probably the result of a change made between 8.9.0 and 8.9.5.

Changing _textField.selectable to false prevents the crash, but also prevents being able to select the text in the first place.

Here’s the code I use to make the textfield below. Hopefully this provides some more information.

		_textField = new TextField();
		_textField.embedFonts = true;
		_textField.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat(font, Std.int(Settings.gameTextSize));
		_textField.x = 0;
		_textField.y = 24 * oflScaleY;
		_textField.width = 640 * oflScaleY;
		_textField.height = 326 * oflScaleY;
		_textField.textColor = _textFieldColour;
		_textField.htmlText = InputData._mainText;
		_textField.type = TextFieldType.DYNAMIC;
		_textField.multiline = false;
		_textField.wordWrap = true;
		_textField.border = false;
		_textField.borderColor = FlxColor.WHITE;
		_textField.backgroundColor = FlxColor.BLACK;
		_textField.selectable = true;
		_textField.scrollV = _textField.text.length;
		_textField.mouseWheelEnabled = true;

Hope this helps!

#2

I think the crash is fixed in the dev build, perhaps it’s this commit?

or probably not this

#3

Quite possibly! How exactly would I go about getting the developer build?

Edit: Pain in the arse to get it working, but I’ve managed to get it to go. The bug’s been fixed in the dev build, w00t! :smiley:

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