Locking ship controls when using text field

[garwel]

By default, when the user enters text into a text field (DialogGUITextInput), the keystrokes are also forwarded to the game. So, if the user presses, say, spacebar to just add a space between words, they will accidentally stage the vessel. How do I prevent it?

I understand that the best practice is to use InputLockManager to set a control lock for ControlTypes.KEYBOARDINPUT when the text field is selected and remove it when it's deselected. But I don't see any events I can attach this behavior to. Nor do I see any (public) fields or properties of DialogGUITextInput that I can use to check if it has the focus.

Any ideas?

Edited August 22, 2020 by garwel

[HebaruSan]

Based on this:

I think we need to get the TextMeshPro object somehow, presumably by waiting till the dialog is created and then going through the GameObject hierarchies. So far I have not found examples of this in released code.