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Patches Welcome #3: The Checkbox That Stole Focus

by Sagar Ghag dev.to

2 min read

A user types into a text field. Their onChanged programmatically toggles a checkbox. The text field loses focus mid-keystroke. The keyboard might dismiss on mobile. The user's cursor is gone and they don't know why. That's issue #1495 in flutter_form_builder, a package with 1,900+ likes on pub.dev. The checkbox was stealing focus every time its value changed, even when no human touched it. Root c…

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