Disabling the Enter Key for Text Interactions

Working on a theory based on a similar, yet different text interaction I used recently. More soon.

OK. Split the scene after the slide with the text interaction. Make the correct hotspot or hot key to go to the new scene after submitting the interaction. Then, add the trigger:

Show Layer Try Again

When the user presses the Enter key

This should still be sent in as a feature request to disable the Enter key on text interactions. Something this simple shouldn't be this complicated.

Hi Jefferson, 

Let us know if Daniel's solution works for you - and as he mentioned you may want to submit a feature request for it. 

Thank you Daniel this does work for a work around, but as he said it seems like a lot of work for something that is simple I will look into a feature request

Sorry the solution did not work, because I could not use the hot key successfully until the enter key was pressed.

Ouch. You are right.

This one came so close. It seems that the user has to press enter for the text interaction to show as complete. The problem seems to be that if you type the required text and immediately press F8, Storyline says that the answer is invalid...

It seems like it doesn't even see the text in the text field until after you press Enter.

This means that if the user accidentally presses Enter after typing, sees the Try Again layer, clicks it, and then presses F8 (which is what I did in my preview, thinking it was testing both possibilities), the transaction works.

However, if the user types the needed text and presses F8 without pressing Enter... No such luck.

Does anyone know if this feature has been added to Storyline 2?  I am working on a simulation where the user needs to use a hotspot to submit the text entry, and we don't want them to be able to use enter to submit because the software I am simulating does not react to the enter key for all text entries. Thanks!

Hi MW,

The text entry boxes and the enter key still behave as described here. 

Bummer! Thanks for your quick response. Will submit a feature request.

I am having the same trouble...when my users click 'Enter', they exit out of the text interaction and go to the next slide.  I tried setting the 'Enter' key to show the feedback layer, but it still skips the feedback layer all together and goes to the next slide.  The best I could think of was to warn them not to press 'Enter' or they will lose their work.