# String of Letter input on Builder view to asnwer a question - can't get it to work

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/string-of-letter-input-on-builder-view-to-asnwer-a-question-cant-get-it-to-work/3235>\
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**Created:** [October 12, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/string-of-letter-input-on-builder-view-to-asnwer-a-question-cant-get-it-to-work/3235 "2017-10-12T14:59:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![NDM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/ndm/32/1647_2.png) [@NDM](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/NDM)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/string-of-letter-input-on-builder-view-to-asnwer-a-question-cant-get-it-to-work/3235/1 "2017-10-12T14:59:43Z")

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Hello. I am using version 1.84.2 on standard standalone Psychopy.  
I am on builder view and in my experiment I ask the participants some questions. I am able to show the questions fine, however I am struggling to allow them to input a string of letters to be able to answer the question. Once the question has been answered I would like them to press the enter key to go onto the next question or the next block of the experiment.

I am quite new to Psychopy so any help would be really appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

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**Author:** ![Michael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/michael/32/16_2.png) [@Michael](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Michael)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/string-of-letter-input-on-builder-view-to-asnwer-a-question-cant-get-it-to-work/3235/2 "2017-10-12T20:49:26Z")

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At the moment, PsychoPy doesn’t provide a built-in way for participants to type free-text responses (it will hopefully get this in the coming year). So in the interim, you’ll need to add some custom code snippets to get what you want. Try reading through these previous threads for ideas:

> [@Unable to give feedback on answers](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/unable-to-give-feedback-on-answers/1416):
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> OS Win10 PsychoPy version 2 I have built an experiment to test participants ability to recall a word from a word pair. The experiment shows participants one word from the word pair and the participants have to type the corresponding word. I have built the experiment so that participants see their answers on screen as they type and they are able to correct mistakes as they type and press enter when they are happy with their answer. This means that resp.keys store every key press so an answer f…

> [@Free format text input](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/free-format-text-input/2378):
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> Hello, How can I have participants be able to see what they type in real time? For instance, to answer a survey question about their age where they need to input their age in numbers? Without\* having the window leave fullscreen mode? I’ve searched extensively on the forum and tried the solutions given there. Nothing worked. Any ideas? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![NDM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/ndm/32/1647_2.png) [@NDM](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/NDM)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/string-of-letter-input-on-builder-view-to-asnwer-a-question-cant-get-it-to-work/3235/3 "2017-10-17T20:23:19Z")

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Thank you! Appreciate that, will check out the threads 🙂