How to add in a live character count of Text Entry field.

Feb 11, 2022

Hi,

I am trying to create a situation where the learner can see how many characters they have typed since I have set a character limit. Is there any way of doing this without having a button to press? I want the count to change as the learner types.

Many thanks.

1 Reply
Riona Menezes

Hi Matthew, thanks for the swift reply. I have so far only managed to get the character count to work if a button is pressed using this bit of Javascript:  

let player = GetPlayer()
let text1 = player.GetVar("TextEntry")
let count1 = text1.length
player.SetVar("CharLength",count1)

I'm a bit new to SL and not familiar with coding, admittedly the method above has flown straight over my head.