TextArea reacts to pressed and does not react to cancel events

[Michał Sawicz]

TextArea reacts to the "pressed" event, which means that as soon as you touch it it will activate, but it doesn't react to "cancel" event, that should deactivate the area.

Whenever you have a Flickable with a TextArea, thus, swiping or dragging often results in focusing the TextArea.

I would actually advocate reacting to "clicked" only when not active, but that's a design decision.

[Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho (renatofilho)]

I can confirm this, and this is causing a lot of problems with the address-book-app.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

This makes it really hard to swipe on the contact edit for of the address book, that has many text fields on the flickable and sometimes you can end up scrolling over one of the textfields that will eat the event.

[Zsombor Egri (zsombi)]

TextArea is focused only when you release your finger from above the input area. Never when pressed.