Multiline St.Entry with wrapping and scrollbar

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Hi.

I’m trying to create a multiline St.Entry with line wrapping and a scrollbar, but for some reason the scrollbar never appears, no matter how many lines of text the St.Entry contains. Here’s code:

const entry = new St.Entry({
    text: `Some very long multiline text`,
    x_expand: true,
});
entry.clutter_text.single_line_mode = false;
entry.clutter_text.activatable = false;
entry.clutter_text.line_wrap = true;
entry.clutter_text.line_wrap_mode = Pango.WrapMode.WORD_CHAR;

const layout = new St.BoxLayout();
layout.add_child(entry);

const scrollView = new St.ScrollView({
    hscrollbar_policy: St.PolicyType.NEVER,
    vscrollbar_policy: St.PolicyType.AUTOMATIC,
    width: 600,
});
scrollView.add_actor(layout);

const dialog = new ModalDialog.ModalDialog();
dialog.contentLayout.add_child(scrollView);
dialog.addButton({
    isDefault: true,
    key: Clutter.KEY_Escape,
    label: 'Close',
    action: () => dialog.close(),
});
dialog.open();

What am I doing wrong?

2

The solution is to use Clutter.Text instead of St.Entry.

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