I've always thought Pure Data lacked a native Textbox widget that was customisable.
So because the sliders output a bang when clicked, that's what I've used as a base.
This is very much an early stage project and I am looking for input/ideas on how to improve it
a-text-entry.zip

@Balwyn Nice!

Here is a patch that simulates a chat window using canvas. Instead of a click to activate the text field it uses cyclone/active to check if the window is active. But receiving a click could be implemented otherwise, e.g. with a data structure

chat.pd

@ingox Really Nice!
You have nailed it in less than a quarter of my code
I knew I should have used [list].
Cheers
Balwyn