Entry ReadOnly

[nagylzs]

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Is your feature request related to a problem?

It is possible to disable an Entry, but that prevents copying text to the clipboard. Is it possible to create an Entry that is not disabled, with the ability to copy text to clipboard, but at the same time make it read-only?

Is it possible to construct a solution with the existing API?

I think it is not possible to do this with the current API.

Describe the solution you'd like to see.

entry.SetReadOnly(true)
entry.SetReadOnly(false)

[andydotxyz]

An entry that cannot be edited and cannot be copied? That is a Label isn't it?

[Jacalz]

It seems like this rather would be solved by making a selectable label like we talked about a while ago on the call

[nagylzs]

An entry that cannot be edited and cannot be copied? That is a Label isn't it?

An entry that cannot be edited and can be copied

[andydotxyz]

My apologies, I misread your message.

It is possible to disable an Entry, but that prevents copying text to the clipboard.

This is not correct, and is where my confusion came from, a disabled entry can be copied.

[nagylzs]

This is not correct, and is where my confusion came from, a disabled entry can be copied.

My apologies, I was wrong. I was testing this under windows. In most Windows applications, a disabled entry cannot have the focus, and the text cannot be copied. (A native Windows read-only entry can have the focus, and its text can be copied, but it looks exactly like a non-disabled entry.) I was confused because I was expecting the native look and feel on Windows.

I can see now that some text can be selected with the mouse in a disabled fyne.Entry .

Here are some things that don't work:

• Ctrl+A (select all)
• Any kind of selection that requires the cursor in the entry, for example Ctrl+Shift+Right arrow would select the text from the cursor to the end of the next word, Ctrl+Shift+End would select the text from the cursor to the end of the text etc.

But they don't need to work, it was just a bit unexpected.

Thank you!