Is it possible to get input cursor `x, y` coordinate?

[tomekzaw]

Yes, it should be possible to extend the native code so that onSelectionChange event returns selection.cursorPosition.x and .y as well (on iOS) and its counterpart on Android.

[kirillzyusko]

Hey @ehxxn

You can use https://kirillzyusko.github.io/react-native-keyboard-controller/docs/api/hooks/input/use-focused-input-handler#onselectionchange to get x/y coordinates

If you want to extend TextInput then you can capture its tag and compare with the tag from event:

const CustomTextInput = (props) => {
  const ref = useRef();
  const [tag, setTag] = useState(-1);

  useEffect(() => {
    setTag(findNodeHandle(ref));
  }, []);

  useFocusedInputHandler({
    onSelectionChange: (e) => {
      "worklet";

      if (e.target === tag) {
        runOnJS(props.customPropHandler)(e);
      }
    }
  }, [tag]);

  return <TextInput ref={ref} {...props} />
}

You may check example app to see how it works in action 👀

[byteab]

Thank you very much! I'll try those solutions

[kirillzyusko]

@ehxxn if you discover, that something is not working or find any bugs - feel free to open new issue in keyboard-controller repository 🙌