UIHANDLER OnChar

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Fires when typing characters.

(self, text)

Arguments

self

Frame - The widget receiving input.

text

string - The UTF-8 character.

Details

• Ignores control buttons such as BACKSPACE or ESCAPE.
• When pasting text, this script fires once for each character pasted (OnTextChanged will only fire once at the end)
• Requires keyboard input, which another Frame can block using Frame:SetPropagateKeyboardInput. Fires after OnKeyDown.
• EditBox also requires edit focus. Fires before OnTextChanged.