TextBox

Introduction

This page shows how to customize TextBox instances.

TextBox and DefaultTextBoxRuntime

By default TextBox instances use a Visual of type DefaultTextBoxRuntime which inherits from DefaultTextBoxBaseRuntime. The full source for these two types can be found here:

Gum/MonoGameGum/Forms/DefaultVisuals/DefaultTextBoxRuntime.cs at master · vchelaru/GumGitHub

Gum/MonoGameGum/Forms/DefaultVisuals/DefaultTextBoxBaseRuntime.cs at master · vchelaru/GumGitHub

Customizing Selection

The following code shows how to customize the selection color:

var textBox = new TextBox();
var selection = (ColoredRectangleRuntime)textBox
    .Visual.GetChildByNameRecursively("SelectionInstance")!;

selection.Color = Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Color.Blue;