Text Input Widget

[CyberSmash]

To be added by @willmcgugan

Sorry if this is already a thing, or goes against the general philosophy of the project.

I have a need for an input widget a user could type text into. My use case is to search through a long list of items such as a directory tree.

One of the bigger hurdles here would be keys that are already bound to action. There doesn't seem to be a way to "unbind" a key, or "unbind" all keys temporarally when the correct input panel is selected.

Thoughts?

[tusharsadhwani]

This, along with an entire Form's worth of widgets are currently under works. Feel free to make a discussion post about any suggestions or requirements you might have regarding any sorts of input widgets though!

[tusharsadhwani]

Here's a currently going on discussion: #105

[Granitosaurus]

Maybe textual could integrate prompt_toolkit somehow? It seems to be a de facto standard for rich input in python right now. I'm not too familiar with textual yet, maybe prompt toolkits embed() can just be plopped into textuals widget?

[danmou]

For anyone else looking for this, textual-inputs implements simple text and number input widgets. They seem to work quite well and the implementation looks very straightforward. Keys being bound outside the widget does not seem to cause any issues when the widget has focus. All credit to the author @sirfuzzalot for implementing it!

[willmcgugan]

https://github.com/Textualize/textual/wiki/Sorry-we-closed-your-issue

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