Six Different Foods, Many Different Names

OK, as a follow-on from this thread, I've just opened an old course, which had the same non-focused text entry field, so I looked up this discussion again to see what the final outcome was, but I didn't do myself any favours with the above response (LOL), so I thought I'd try figure it out again.

Here's what I just did to successfully give the entry field the desired focus:

1. Select the slide needing fixing
2. Go into Home > Focus Order > Select "Create a custom focus order" at the top
3. Drag the entry field to the top.

When I tested the slide, the cursor was automatically blinking in the field - WOHOO! Weirdly, I had tried that in the past (as described above) but it didn't seem to make a difference at the time.

When I changed the setting back to "The default custom focus order", the focus stopped working for that field, so it definitely seems to be that setting that's making it work.

I hope that helps someone else 🤓

Daing, I wish I could recall what I did to fix this but it was a while ago and I had to rush onto other things and didn't put my solution in here.

Looking now at the file that was previously NOT working and IS now focusing properly, I can't see any evidence of what I did to get it working so I'll just share how I have it set up so that even that information may help others.

1. My Text Entry field is on a separate layer that gets triggered to Show when the learner clicks on a button. For my slide, I only have the base layer and the "Admin Access" layer (that has the Text Entry field and 6 other objects on it).
2. The layer properties only has "Hide other slide layers" ticked (nothing else)
3. The Text Entry field is currently sitting 5th from the top of 7 elements (so it's NOT on top or on the bottom). Even when I send the field to the top or bottom of the object layering (when on bottom, that puts it under other objects) the cursor is flashing, ready for input, when I preview it.
4. I don't have any special triggers set up to try and give it focus
5. The Focus Order shows that the Text Entry field is 7th from the top so nothing altered/special there.

Basically, I now have no idea why it's working. From memory, I was desperately stabbing around trying all sorts of things to get it to work (when I first created this thread) and, if my memory serves me correctly, it somehow just started to work so I copied the layer to other projects, as needed.

Sorry I can't offer anything more definitive. If I figure it out at a later date, I'll drop a note in here.

Rgds, Brett

Thanks Nedim

You should enable the "Prevent the user from clicking on the other layers" option to ensure the text entry field gains focus.

I'm hitting the same issue. I've created a new slide with a single layer to show what I'm doing in the attachment. The slide has a rectangle that triggers showing the layer when clicked. The layer only has the text entry field on it, but still needs to be clicked in to so the user can type. 

What am I missing?

Hi,

I'm having a similar issue to Brett, however I've tried Andrew's suggestion, but it's not working.

I have my text field on the base layer (and this is the only thing on this layer), and then I created another layer (let's call this Layer 2) with all of the other content. It didn't auto focus on the text field and the entire screen was blank (I had to click onto the text field and type still). I then tried to add a trigger to 'Show Layer 2' when the timeline starts on this slide, so at least the screen had the content, but still no auto focusing and the text doesn't appear on top of Layer 2, so I can't see what I'm typing.

I've tried to put the content as a background image, however it becomes extremely blurry.

Even tried to change the focus order, however it doesn't autofocus for me to type without having to click on the text field.

What am I doing wrong?

Ben