[GH-ISSUE #880] tview application freezes with AddTextView form component specific configuration and keystroke capture #641

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opened 2026-03-04 01:06:41 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

kerem commented

2026-03-04 01:06:41 +03:00

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Originally created by @WeBtOrY-ES on GitHub (Sep 4, 2023).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/rivo/tview/issues/880

Hi!

After injecting application and form as a parameters of a function tview.NewApplication(),tview.NewForm() as application *tview.Application, form *tview.Form

when you use this configuration of AddTextView

form.AddTextView("Server name", serverName, 20, 1, false, false)

and the Esc key is pressed

(captured with this code)

application.SetInputCapture(func(event *tcell.EventKey) *tcell.EventKey { k := event.Key() if k == tcell.KeyEsc { escPressed = true application.Stop() } return event })

the application freezes.

However, with this configuration of AddTextView is used

form.AddTextView("Server name", serverName, 20, 1, false, true)

the application behaves as it should.

I don't know if is a expected behavior or is a bug.

Originally created by @WeBtOrY-ES on GitHub (Sep 4, 2023). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/rivo/tview/issues/880 Hi! After injecting application and form as a parameters of a function `tview.NewApplication(),tview.NewForm()` as `application *tview.Application, form *tview.Form` when you use this configuration of AddTextView `form.AddTextView("Server name", serverName, 20, 1, false, false)` and the Esc key is pressed (captured with this code) `application.SetInputCapture(func(event *tcell.EventKey) *tcell.EventKey { k := event.Key() if k == tcell.KeyEsc { escPressed = true application.Stop() } return event })` the application freezes. However, with this configuration of AddTextView is used `form.AddTextView("Server name", serverName, 20, 1, false, true)` the application behaves as it should. I don't know if is a expected behavior or is a bug.

kerem commented

2026-03-04 01:06:43 +03:00

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@uqix commented on GitHub (Jul 18, 2025):

This issue still exists, when the ESC key is pressed in a form, the form focuses the first item which happens to be a TextView with scrollable set to false, then the app freezes.

@uqix commented on GitHub (Jul 18, 2025): This issue still exists, when the `ESC` key is pressed in a form, the form focuses the **first item** which happens to be a `TextView` with `scrollable` set to `false`, then the app freezes.

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@asimfarooq5 commented on GitHub (Nov 20, 2025):

Keyboard input freezes after repeated navigation between two tview pages that update frequently.

@asimfarooq5 commented on GitHub (Nov 20, 2025): Keyboard input freezes after repeated navigation between two tview pages that update frequently.