Keyboard events with kivy

Question

I'm trying to create an app where the user can type some text in a TextInput, and press a button to register the data. Is it possible to bind the Enter key, so the user can just press it inside the Text Input and it calls the register function?

[This isn't an identical question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49727988/python-kivy-form-submit-using-enter-key), but you may find it useful for reference. — Ari Cooper-Davis, Oct 26 '19 at 14:35

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 26 '19 at 14:33

If it's a single line TextInput you can you can set the TextInput.multiline property to False then the Enter key emits a TextInput.on_text_validate() event. For example:

from kivy.uix.textinput import TextInput
textinput = TextInput(text='Hello world')

def on_enter(instance, value):
    print('User pressed enter in', instance)

textinput = TextInput(text='Hello world', multiline=False)
textinput.bind(on_text_validate=on_enter)

This is in Kivy's TextInput documentation.

Keyboard events with kivy

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