Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework

Re:Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework by t_mahmood on Thursday April 09, 2026 @08:55AM (#47703107)

Have a question, what is the best way to detect if a `text_input` is focused?

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Re:Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework by FrankenApps on Friday April 10, 2026 @11:47AM (#47719882)

Not exactly what you asked, but I recently answered a very similar question on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79345013/how-to-focus-te...

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Re:Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework by t_mahmood on Monday April 13, 2026 @04:55AM (#47749495)

Yes, not what I want :-).

I can focus just fine. I want to detect if a text_input is focused, when I am checking key-presses.

But going through every discussion and all, there was a PR that might have allowed to do this, and it's been merged, but it's not working the way I want.

My use case is, If the text_input is not focused, I can press characters to perform some operations. If text_input is selected, it should be ignored.

For now I am back using modifiers, will get back to this later.

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