Opening keyboard while B is pressed removes last letter

SDK Bug Reports
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Situation:

  1. Set playdate.keyboard.text to "initial text"
  2. Press B
  3. While holding B call playdate.keyboard.show()

Expected result: Keyboard is shown with "initial text"
What happened instead: Keyboard is shown with "initial tex"

I’d expect B not to remove a letter if it’s already pressed just like A doesn’t add a letter if it’s already pressed.
Thanks for checking. :slight_smile:

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I'll take a look at this, thanks for reporting the problem!

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I finally found some time to take a look at this, but I don't seem to be able to reproduce the behavior you were seeing. Do you have some code that demonstrates the problem?

This is the little game I was using to test:

KeyboardTester.zip (3.8 KB)

Holding the B button down while opening the keyboard by pressing A in this project doesn't seem to result in any characters being deleted from the text, but please let me know if I'm missing something!

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You’re right. It doesn’t appear to happen when I hold B in your code but if I replace AButtonDown with BButtonDown and press B to open it is cut off again.
Background: I first encountered the issue after trying to use B instead of A to confirm and then noticed that it also happened when just holding B but I can’t reproduce the second case anymore.

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Ah ha, you're right, switching it to the B button to open the keyboard results in the deleted letter. Good catch, I'll get a fix in for that!