URL of experiment: Eva Specht / TextBox no autofocus online · GitLab Description of the problem: In my experiment I use the editable TexBox (Beta) component to collect answers. Offline, the text box gets auto-focus so that the test subjects don’t have to keep manually clicking in the box before …

Hi there, You need the following line of code in a JS code component in the each frame tab to bring the textbox to focus online: textbox_name._pixi.focus() Hope this helps, Becca Ps. We are looking to make the behaviour of the textbox online equivalent to the local textbox in this regard! …

Had the same error, this fixed it for me. Thank you, Becca!

Thanks, Becca, that solved the issue!

Happy to help! I hope you don’t mind I marked the solution here for future users :slight_smile: All the best! Becca

Hi @Becca . I am facing the same problem and tried applying this solution as shown below. [Screen Shot 2022-01-25 at 10.19.19 am] But unfortunately, once uploaded to Pavlovia and run, when the experiment got that point it threw this error. [IMG_2932] Is there anything else I have to do to make…

Hi Dan - I think now you should just be able to add a code component with this in the “begin routine” tab textbox.refresh() hope that helps

WOOOHOOOOO!!! IT WORKS!!! (apologies for the caps - but this problem has been kicking my butt for AGES now…) YAY! Some more details - I figured out that the error I saw above was caused by my code being higher up in the list than the Textbox to which it referred. Also - I had to remove all the …

Oh. No. Wait. This approach works on-line. But… when I try and run it locally now - PyschoPy throws an error. Sigh… Is this expected? Any ideas? [Screen Shot 2022-01-25 at 11.42.51 am] (Error message in the Runner window above) D.

Ah. Yes. And THIS seems to work. And that’s an elegant little solution to an ugly problem. :slight_smile: Also has made more cognisant of what the two panels of the code window can be used for. Thanks. :slight_smile: D.

Hi, I am trying to do something similar in javascript but I can’t find the right information. I would like to show 5 textboxes at once. In each it is written “type here”. As soon the mouse hits the textbox, “type here” will disappear to have only the cursor available. I was able to make it in pyth…

Editable Textbox no autofocus online

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wakecarter January 25, 2022, 4:49pm 11

What if you change that code component to Both and then delete the Python side?

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