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Summary

  • Add textfieldSetSelectionRange(widget, start, end) and start/end getters for macOS TextFields. Offsets use UTF-16 units and are clamped to the current text.
  • Apply a range requested before focus after AppKit creates the field editor, so a prefilled field can open with its cursor at the end instead of all text selected.
  • Add native macOS coverage, TypeScript declarations and docs. Other platform libraries retain the shared FFI symbols as documented macOS-only stubs.

Fixes #10934.

Verification

  • cargo test --profile perry-dev -p perry-ui-macos --test native_textfield_selection
  • cargo test -p perry-dispatch --test dispatch_drift
  • Compiled and ran a TypeScript macOS app calling the new API; it printed 5 5 before the window and after-focus 5 5 after the window opened.
  • rustfmt --check, git diff --check, and scripts/check_file_size.sh

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  • New Features
    • On macOS, TextFields now let you set the cursor position or select a text range, and retrieve the current selection bounds. You can set the selection before or after focusing a field; setting it before focus prevents the text from being selected automatically when the field opens.
    • Selection offsets use UTF-16 indexing and are clamped to the text length.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance and an example for controlling TextField selection.

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The PR adds TextField APIs to set and read selection ranges. It routes the APIs through UI dispatch, implements selection control on macOS, and adds no-op FFI stubs on other platforms.

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TextField Selection Controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Public API and dispatch
types/perry/ui/index.d.ts, crates/perry-dispatch/src/ui_table/part_a.rs, crates/perry-codegen-js/src/emit/calls.rs, crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/ui_method_map.rs
The declarations and dispatch mappings add the selection setter and start/end getters.
macOS selection behavior and validation
crates/perry-ui-macos/src/widgets/textfield.rs, crates/perry-ui-macos/src/lib_ffi/interactivity.rs, crates/perry-ui-macos/Cargo.toml, crates/perry-ui-macos/tests/native_textfield_selection.rs, docs/src/ui/widgets.md, changelog.d/10990-textfield-selection.md
macOS stores and applies UTF-16 selection ranges before or after focus. The native test covers cursor placement, range selection, and clamping. The documentation and changelog describe the APIs.
Shared UI ABI on other platforms
crates/perry-ui-android/src/ffi/text_scroll.rs, crates/perry-ui-gtk4/src/ffi/text_button.rs, crates/perry-ui-ios/src/ffi/widgets_basic.rs, crates/perry-ui-tvos/src/ffi/focus_scroll.rs, crates/perry-ui-visionos/src/ffi_focus_menu.rs, crates/perry-ui-watchos/src/lib.rs, crates/perry-ui-windows/src/ffi/textfield_scroll.rs
These platforms add no-op setters and getters that return 0.0.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TextFieldAPI
  participant UiDispatch
  participant MacOSTextFieldFFI
  participant TextFieldWidget
  participant AppKitFieldEditor
  TextFieldAPI->>UiDispatch: dispatch selection API call
  UiDispatch->>MacOSTextFieldFFI: call setter or getter
  MacOSTextFieldFFI->>TextFieldWidget: set or read selection range
  TextFieldWidget->>AppKitFieldEditor: apply range when editor exists
  TextFieldWidget->>TextFieldWidget: retain pending range until editing or focus
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2dbb6

Apps sharing the new API with browser targets can encounter failed calls, and macOS getters can report a position beyond the current text. Add browser counterparts and reclamp pending selections before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding macOS TextField selection controls.
Description check ✅ Passed The description provides a clear summary, concrete changes, related issue, and verification steps. It does not use every template heading, such as Changes, Test plan, and Checklist, but it contains th…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #10934 requires a TextField API to set and read the insertion point or selection range, including the pre-focus case on macOS. The PR adds textfieldSetSelectionRange, `textfieldGetSelectionSta…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within issue #10934. The non-macOS FFI stubs preserve the shared ABI for the macOS-specific API. The codegen mappings, declarations, documentation, changelog, and native tests support…
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Not in merge train 257 (#11039): the cherry-pick conflicts with current main in crates/perry-ui-macos/Cargo.toml. #10991 conflicts on the same file, so if you own both, rebase them in sequence rather than in parallel. Ping me with the head and it goes in the next train.

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proggeramlug force-pushed the fix/10934-textfield-selection branch from 0994767 to 2dbb67e Compare September 23, 2026 04:30

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In `@crates/perry-codegen-js/src/emit/calls.rs`:
- Around line 327-329: Add browser runtime counterparts for the text-field
selection methods mapped by textfieldSetSelectionRange,
textfieldGetSelectionStart, and textfieldGetSelectionEnd. Register explicit
no-op setter and 0.0-returning getter stubs in window.__perry for JavaScript and
in __perryUiDispatch for WebAssembly.

In `@crates/perry-ui-macos/src/widgets/textfield.rs`:
- Around line 294-296: Reclamp the pending range retrieved from
TEXTFIELD_SELECTIONS against the field’s current text length before passing it
to editor.setSelectedRange, so text changes made before focus cannot leave the
applied or reported selection out of bounds.

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  • changelog.d/10990-textfield-selection.md
  • crates/perry-codegen-js/src/emit/calls.rs
  • crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/ui_method_map.rs
  • crates/perry-dispatch/src/ui_table/part_a.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-android/src/ffi/text_scroll.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-gtk4/src/ffi/text_button.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-ios/src/ffi/widgets_basic.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-macos/Cargo.toml
  • crates/perry-ui-macos/src/lib_ffi/interactivity.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-macos/src/widgets/textfield.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-macos/tests/native_textfield_selection.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-tvos/src/ffi/focus_scroll.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-visionos/src/ffi_focus_menu.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-watchos/src/lib.rs
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Comment on lines +327 to +329
"textfieldSetSelectionRange" => "perry_ui_textfield_set_selection_range",
"textfieldGetSelectionStart" => "perry_ui_textfield_get_selection_start",
"textfieldGetSelectionEnd" => "perry_ui_textfield_get_selection_end",

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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for f in crates/perry-codegen-js/src/web_runtime.js crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/wasm_runtime.js; do
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rg -n -C 8 'macOS|macos|browser|WebAssembly|selection(Start|End|Range)|textfield' README.md docs crates --glob '*.md' --glob '*.rs' --glob '*.js' --glob '*.toml' 2>/dev/null | head -n 600

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Add browser runtime counterparts for the text-field selection mappings.

The JavaScript emitter maps these methods to symbols that web_runtime.js does not define or export. A JavaScript-target call therefore throws when it invokes the missing function.

The WebAssembly emitter sends the same names through mem_call. wasm_runtime.js has no matching entries in __perryUiDispatch, so the setter has no effect and getters return undefined. The JavaScript fallback path also invokes the missing property directly and can throw.

The native non-macOS backends preserve this macOS-only API with no-op setters and 0.0 getters. Add the same explicit stubs to both browser runtimes. Register the JavaScript stubs in window.__perry and the WebAssembly stubs in __perryUiDispatch.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen-js/src/emit/calls.rs` around lines 327 - 329, Add
browser runtime counterparts for the text-field selection methods mapped by
textfieldSetSelectionRange, textfieldGetSelectionStart, and
textfieldGetSelectionEnd. Register explicit no-op setter and 0.0-returning
getter stubs in window.__perry for JavaScript and in __perryUiDispatch for
WebAssembly.

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Comment on lines +294 to +296
let range = TEXTFIELD_SELECTIONS.with(|selections| selections.borrow_mut().remove(&handle));
if let Some(range) = range {
editor.setSelectedRange(range);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reclamp a pending range if the text changes before focus.

If code requests position 5 in "hello" and then changes the field to "x" before focus, the stored range remains at 5. selection_range returns that out-of-bounds pending offset, although the API promises offsets clamped to the current text. Reclamp the stored range when you apply or read it, or update it when the text changes. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@crates/perry-ui-macos/src/widgets/textfield.rs` around lines 294 - 296,
Reclamp the pending range retrieved from TEXTFIELD_SELECTIONS against the
field’s current text length before passing it to editor.setSelectedRange, so
text changes made before focus cannot leave the applied or reported selection
out of bounds.

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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr

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Landed on main in merge train 265 (#11108), released as v0.5.1648 at 9d26936298.

Cherry-picked from this PR's head 2dbb67ed49 and validated as one tree with 15 other PRs — CI 22/22 green, all 6 gap-suite shards. A train rebase gives the commits new SHAs, so GitHub cannot auto-close the source PR; closing by hand.

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perry/ui: no API to set a TextField's cursor/selection range (or opt out of select-all on focus)

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