Disabling a text entry field

Hi Mischka,

Thank you for the additional information along with your questions. You're correct, the layers approach would require many steps for each text entry.

I'm opening a support case on your behalf specific to the shape not covering your text entry when in a scrolling panel so that one of our support engineers can take a closer look at this. You should be hearing from someone soon.

In the meantime, I look forward to seeing other design ideas from the community.

I've been seeing questions over 6 years old asking about how to hide a text entry box. In what release will that functionality be included?

Just asking because I'm creating a cryptogram puzzle and covering and uncovering text entry boxes is tedious work that could be solved with a hidden/normal state.

Hi, Joseph.

Thank you for reaching out! While I don't have any news to share on the ability to hide a text entry field, I wanted to share the article below that explains how those requests are managed:

• How We Manage Feature Requests

I hope this helps!

Hi, we've found a solution, this is not perfect but it works.

You can put your text entry field on a layer, and hide the layer when you need the texte entry field to disapear.

I hope it can help you!

I would like to second a request to disable text entry fields. I'm having the same issue as Mischka where despite having a fully opaque object over text entry fields, when they're in a scroll panel (or a group) you can still click them even though they're hidden. That seems like a bug to me, but it would also be nice to disable them entirely through a state.

I'm having the same issue. Not just a fully opaque object, but even an image covering a text entry field won't work. The user can still click through whatever object is present into the text entry field. This is making it impossible for us to create drop-down menus in a scroll panel since building a menu system as layers doesn't work in a scroll panel. This bug and the inability to allow data entry fields to go into an hidden state is effectively ruining our project.

Hi Rick!

I have a solution :

Hi, we've found a solution, this is not perfect but it works.

You can put your text entry field on a layer, and hide the layer when you need the texte entry field to disapear.

I hope it can help you!

I'm having the same issue, it would be great if you could add new features (like states on those variables) on the 64 version to fix this :)

Bumping this thread to add another reason for disabling text entry fields:
When reviewing a quiz question, a user can still tab through the focus order and change their answer, even with an object blocking the fields. Then when they return to the results slide it will mark that question as correct.

You can disable a text entry field at any time with just a few lines of JavaScript. Share your scenario or setup, and we'll make it work if feasible.