My first steps with pynecone: I'm trying to pre-fill a textarea based on checkboxes and dropdowns, and then enable the user to edit the generated text.
However, when I hook up the events such that I can populate the textarea, whenever the user enters a character, the on_change event fires and moves the cursor to the end of the text area, making editing impossible.
Is there a way to do this?
Here is my minimal code example:
from pcconfig import config
import pynecone as pc
class State(pc.State):
q1_response: str
q1_c0: bool = False
q1_c1: bool = False
q1_c2: bool = False
def add_response(self, *args):
text = ''
if self.q1_c0:
text += q.options[0][1] + '\n'
if self.q1_c1:
text += q.options[1][1] + '\n'
if self.q1_c2:
text += q.options[2][1] + '\n'
self.q1_response = text.strip()
class Question:
def __init__(self):
self.q = 'This is the question'
self.options = [
('None', 'Nothing'),
('Answer 1', 'The long answer 1.'),
('Answer 2', 'The long answer 2.'),
]
q = Question()
def index():
return pc.container(
pc.text(q.q, font_size="1.5em"),
pc.vstack(
pc.checkbox(q.options[0][0] + ' - ' + q.options[0][1], on_change=State.set_q1_c0),
pc.checkbox(q.options[1][0] + ' - ' + q.options[1][1], on_change=State.set_q1_c1),
pc.checkbox(q.options[2][0] + ' - ' + q.options[2][1], on_change=State.set_q1_c2),
pc.button("Add", on_click=State.add_response, bg="blue", color="white"),
pc.text_area(
value = State.q1_response,
placeholder = 'The long answer will go here',
on_change = State.set_q1_response,
rows = 8,
),
),
)
app = pc.App(state=State)
app.add_page(index)
app.compile()
I tried a variety of events, but the only way I can get pynecone to update the textbox (see the example), editing of the textarea by the user is impacted.
I did find a recent issue that seems to be related to my observations ... so it could be an open bug github.com/pynecone-io/pynecone/issues/900
