Need Button To appear When Text Is Entered

Typing isn't a triggering event. And the variable from the typed text isn't saved until the text box loses focus.

What does work is to have to button disabled or hidden and change the state when the user clicks into text box.

Hi Tom,

Thank you for your reply. I did try hiding the button when the timeline started. Then showing it when user clicks into text box but it still doesn't force them to type anything. I also tried adding a trigger when TextEntry changes set state of button to normal if value does not equal blank. This works but I still have to click out of box to get button to appear. The dream is after a few words the button appears. Any other suggestions?  

There's nothing in SL that forces the person to type anything and the variable itself isn't triggered until the object loses focus. 

You could make the assumption that once the person clicks into the box that they're typing. And then add some sort of timed element where the button appears 2 seconds later.

You should be able to use

let inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');




function fnBlur(e) {

    e.target.blur();

    e.target.focus();

}




for (let index = 0; index < inputs.length; ++index) {

    inputs[index].addEventListener("keyup",fnBlur)

}

To blur and refocus the text entry field

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/3c9f4b1e-ca64-42ec-8a89-e3979bd4dcff/review

If you want them to type more than one character 

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/23a38cbe-3195-4e75-99e2-82fa680fe62b/review

this is rudimentary counter I could limit to not count spaces or numbers

Thanks for sharing the JS code

Thank you, Phil and Tom, for your suggestions and code! I really appreciate it!