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Something different: I am _so_ happy about `BasicTextField2`. Thanks to everyone who worked on it :clap:. I understand writing a text field is probably not glamorous work but the difference between this and the previous version are night and day. I can't tell you how happy I am having written an incredibly complex `VisualTransformation` for something that should have been simple previously then having to go back to `EditText` because not everything was supported.

What were you using the visual transformation for? Are you using  OutputTransformation on btf2?

I will be :sweat_smile: that's the plan. I haven't written it yet but not having to count indices seems nicer. I have used `InputTransformation` so far to capture some user input but will probably use `OutputTransformation` for styling mention text (that's what I wrote my previous `VisualTransformation` for)

So OutputTransformation doesn’t currently support style annotations, but it’s on the roadmap

oops then maybe I jumped the gun too soon. When should we expect the style annotations?

since `TextFieldValue` takes in an `AnnotatedString`, I can probably make what I need work without `OutputTransformation` through an edit to the annotated string. Probably fine for my use case.

BTF2 doesn’t use `TextFieldValue`, `OutputTransformation` uses the new `TextFieldBuffer` API which doesn’t support annotations yet.

i can’t give you a specific ETA with confidence, but it’s high on our list of things to support after the core functionality is out the door

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oof maybe I need to revert my change :sweat_smile: ooooooops

Sorry. Since BTF never properly supported styling anyway, we didn’t think it would be a regression if btf2 didn’t right away either 

`BasicTextField` did support `TextFieldValue` though, so it could render stylized text, right? I'm not super worried about the support though, no need to apologize. I can always go back to using `EditText` until `BasicTextField2` is ready.

No, it used AnnotatedStrings in the API because support was _planned_, but it never actually supported it

OG BasicTextField does support some aspects of AnnotatedString at least