Tab/Enter (and other keystrokes) handling in Kivy's TextInput widgets

Question

I\'m writing an app using Kivy framework and I stumbled upon a minor but annoying problem: I don\'t know how to handle Tab/Enter/Arrow keys in text fields so that press

Answer 1

As suggested by Daniel Kinsman in his comment, you could subclass TextInput, add "previous" and "next" ObjectProperties for tab support (easy to set in kv using references to other widgets), and handle the keyboard events differently. There is no out of the box support for this right now, but if you want to work on such modification drop us a feature-request or comme discuss it in #kivy on freenode.

https://github.com/kivy/kivy/blob/master/kivy/uix/textinput.py#L1188

Maybe it would be even better to add such support on widget, and add some focus logic, so tab/enter have effects on any activable widget, and some widgets like slider use right/left/up/down keys too.

So there is still a lot to do in Kivy about that, and if you are interested in helping, you can really make it happen faster, we'll help you :)