Selectable Labels

[prolic]

In the comment here #115 (comment) it was suggested to use textFieldD_ to emulate this:

textFieldD_ (WidgetValue "Here is something that Mike wrote") [readOnly]
    `styleBasic` [
        border 0 transparent,
        radius 0,
        bgColor $ rgbHex "#515151"
    ]

However there are some serious limitiations: The content that should be displayed comes from user-data and might be longer.
Therefore I need support for something like multiline and ellipsis, but those are only available for label, not for textArea (for obvious reasons).

[prolic]

On another note: line breaks (probably "\n" ?) coming from a textArea are displayed like this in textFieldD_:

[fjvallarino]

You can use textAreaD_ instead, and it would provide most of what you are expecting. I most likely meant to use that widget instead of textField.

There is no support for ellipsis when using textArea. Although it could be added, I wonder if it is really needed. The textArea widget already includes a scroll widget, and the content will not be cut.

The weird newline characters in textField are expected since it is a single-line text widget.

[prolic]

I tried using textAreaD_, my main problem with it is, that it doesn't break the text. I don't want to have that horizontal scrollbar.

[dimsuz]

I also vote for this feature.
Working on an app which will render lines of text each of which can be interacted with independently (having it's own styles/hovers etc), currently represent them as labels and all of them need to be selectable.

I will try to go textFieldD_ route to enable selection, but I'm also curious how much overhead would this be for monomer to render when compared to rendering/processing only labels.