From 1b6d116dfbf5c93a5bf60b725075e7893bc97dfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony-Goat <70238376+Tony-Goat@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:58:03 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Updated LineEdit to address #41278

Updated set_max_length() function to actually pull a substring of the current text so it's not all thrown away when the new max length is shorter than the current length.

(cherry picked from commit 71febfd6e2f6187fcc106ce715124cf173bfa0b8)
---
 scene/gui/line_edit.cpp | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scene/gui/line_edit.cpp b/scene/gui/line_edit.cpp
index 805297d5ac3..7474e885c53 100644
--- a/scene/gui/line_edit.cpp
+++ b/scene/gui/line_edit.cpp
@@ -1263,7 +1263,12 @@ void LineEdit::delete_text(int p_from_column, int p_to_column) {
 void LineEdit::set_text(String p_text) {
 
 	clear_internal();
-	append_at_cursor(p_text);
+
+	if (p_text.length() > max_length) {
+		append_at_cursor(p_text.substr(0, max_length));
+	} else {
+		append_at_cursor(p_text);
+	}
 
 	if (expand_to_text_length) {
 		minimum_size_changed();