diff -r 70d2aee84432 -r 46a42f0c4f93 ui/motif/text.c
--- a/ui/motif/text.c	Sun Jan 04 22:12:07 2015 +0100
+++ b/ui/motif/text.c	Mon Jan 05 11:49:46 2015 +0100
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     
     Widget parent = ct->prepare(ct, args, &n, TRUE);
     Widget text_area = XmCreateScrolledText(parent, "text_area", args, n);
-    ct->add(ct, text_area);
+    ct->add(ct, XtParent(text_area));
     XtManageChild(text_area);
     
     UiTextArea *uitext = ucx_mempool_malloc(
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
     if(value) {
         if(value->value) {
             XmTextSetString(text_area, value->value);
+            XtFree(value->value);
         }
         
         value->set = ui_textarea_set;
@@ -325,3 +326,63 @@
         mgr->cur = elm;
     }
 }
+
+
+/* ------------------------- textfield ------------------------- */
+
+UIWIDGET ui_textfield(UiObject *obj, UiString *value) {
+    UiContainer *ct = uic_get_current_container(obj);
+    int n = 0;
+    Arg args[16];
+    XtSetArg(args[n], XmNeditMode, XmSINGLE_LINE_EDIT);
+    n++;
+    
+    Widget parent = ct->prepare(ct, args, &n, FALSE);
+    Widget textfield = XmCreateText(parent, "text_field", args, n);
+    ct->add(ct, textfield);
+    XtManageChild(textfield);
+    
+    // bind value
+    if(value) {
+        if(value->value) {
+            XmTextSetString(textfield, value->value);
+            XtFree(value->value);
+        }
+        
+        value->set = ui_textfield_set;
+        value->get = ui_textfield_get;
+        value->value = NULL;
+        value->obj = textfield;
+    }
+    
+    return textfield;
+}
+
+UIWIDGET ui_textfield_nv(UiObject *obj, char *varname) {
+    UiVar *var = uic_connect_var(obj->ctx, varname, UI_VAR_STRING);
+    if(var) {
+        UiString *value = var->value;
+        return ui_textfield(obj, value);
+    } else {
+        // TODO: error
+    }
+    return NULL;
+}
+
+char* ui_textfield_get(UiString *str) {
+    if(str->value) {
+        XtFree(str->value);
+    }
+    char *value = XmTextGetString(str->obj);
+    str->value = value;
+    return value;
+}
+
+void ui_textfield_set(UiString *str, char *value) {
+    if(str->value) {
+        XtFree(str->value);
+    }
+    str->value = NULL;
+    XmTextSetString(str->obj, value);
+}
+