Pyglet TextEntry not Working

Question

I have been trying to make a simple game, and have recently been trying to work on a menu system for it. I am trying to insert a TextEntry box using the examples they have provided themselves.

I have attempted to replicate their code, however I cannot enter any text with the TextEntry. The other widgets work fine, it is just this one. I am unsure if I need to call it into focus, but there does not appear to be any way to do so.

The relevant code is as such:

import pyglet


window = pyglet.window.Window(540, 500, caption="Widget Example")
batch = pyglet.graphics.Batch()
pyglet.gl.glClearColor(0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 1.0)


@window.event
def on_draw():
    window.clear()
    batch.draw()


def text_entry_handler(text):
    text_entry_label.text = f"Text: {text}"

frame = pyglet.gui.Frame(window, order=4)

text_entry = pyglet.gui.TextEntry("Enter Your Name", 100, 100, 150, batch=batch)
frame.add_widget(text_entry)
text_entry.set_handler('on_commit', text_entry_handler)
text_entry_label = pyglet.text.Label("Text: None", x=300, y=100, batch=batch, color=(0, 0, 0, 255))

pyglet.app.run()

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

For me, text entry improved when I added a line to the on_draw method to set focus to the TextEntry object every time the event is called.

import pyglet
window = pyglet.window.Window(width=800, height=600, caption='Input Testing')
batch = pyglet.graphics.Batch()
pyglet.gl.glClearColor(0.8,0.8,0.8,1.0)

@window.event
def on_draw():
    window.clear()
    batch.draw()
    text_entry.focus = True # set focus to the text entry every time the screen is redrawn.  

def text_entry_handler(text):
    text_entry_label.text = f"Text: {text}"

frame = pyglet.gui.Frame(window, order=4)

text_entry = pyglet.gui.TextEntry("Enter Your Name", 100, 100, 150, batch=batch)
text_entry.set_handler('on_commit', text_entry_handler) 

frame.add_widget(text_entry)
text_entry_label = pyglet.text.Label("Text: None", 300, 100, batch=batch)
pyglet.app.run()

I learned a lot reading and fiddling with this code, ended up answering my own question and writing a method that cleared the name box whenever new text was entered into it (which I'll probably need myself one day). I doubt, a year later, you still need help with this, but I'm glad I read it at least.