Control Loses Focus

May 28, 2012

Hi,

Still in an exploring mode. Could anyone help me in understanding this - Control Loses Focus better, in the Other Events section ?

Thanks

Shyam

11 Replies

Phil Mayor
Hero

almost 12 years ago05/28/12 at 11:02 am (UTC)

An example would be a textbox it loses focus when you click on something else or tab off it.

Phil Mayor
Hero

almost 12 years ago05/28/12 at 11:02 am (UTC)

meant text entry control not textbox

Shyam Saha
Author

almost 12 years ago05/28/12 at 11:04 am (UTC)

Thanks Phil for a quick response.

Could you please mention some usage of it, to explain this better or are there any tutorials on this ?

Thanks.

Phil Mayor
Hero

almost 12 years ago05/28/12 at 11:10 am (UTC)

Sorry dont know about tutorials.

An example I would use could be to perofrm a calculation. e.g you have a series of numerical entry fields the user can tab through after the third you want a calculation performed, you can do this when the control loses focus.

Another use could be to validate the entry, when the control loses focus you execute some javascript to check the data entered is corect or to perform a calculation such as age from date of birth

Shyam Saha
Author

almost 12 years ago05/28/12 at 11:19 am (UTC)

Thanks Phil.

Got it.

Will try out the usage of it now .

Russell Still

almost 12 years ago05/28/12 at 1:31 pm (UTC)

And Phil was too shy to mention that the concept of having and losing the focus is covered in his book, Storyline for Starters.

Carrie Booth

almost 12 years ago07/11/12 at 10:08 am (UTC)

A book! how awesome... thanks for the answers and not being too shy to share this resource... A bunch of folks I work with will be coming online with Storyline soon and I am happy to have something other than me to get answers from!

Ellen Wahlen

over 11 years ago10/09/12 at 2:34 pm (UTC)

Hooray!!! I am ordering the book today! If my employer won't spring for it, I will get it out of my own funds.

Norma Miller

over 10 years ago12/30/13 at 1:15 pm (UTC)

I am struggling to understand this concept of "control loses focus" under Other Events.

I'm trying to let the learner jump to another slide after closing a lightbox slide with the X, without first having to return to the slide from which the lightbox was launched in order to click NEXT. It would be so simple if there were a way to jump to a certain slide upon closing the lightbox, but I don't see that as an option.

I thought a trigger using "control loses focus" might do the trick, but I get no choices for the Object except "unassigned" even if I have first selected a text box or a picture.

Can someone please post an example so I can see how this "event" is supposed to work? Or, is there a better way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?

Thanks!