Is there any way to stop the cursor from blinking after the user has finished typing text into a text field? I have the textfield type set to TextFieldType.INPUT
Simple answer, remove focus from the input when the user is finished typing.
The real question is, "How do I know when a user is "finished" typing? If the input had a maximum length of 5 characters, we could say the user is "finished" after the 5th character is typed and remove focus then. BUT, what if the user entered an incorrect last character and went to press "backspace"? Well, they're s.o.l. because the cursor isn't there anymore.
Your best bet is to create a timer that removes focus from the input after X seconds. Reset and start the timer after each keyUp event in the input. Decide for yourself how many seconds X should be.
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I'm making a filter that counts the number of times you blink in x number of seconds.
After the x seconds are up I want it to stop counting the blinks, but I can't seem to drag any other patch to the face finder/tracking/select/blink patches.
The logic I've managed to create so far is:
Display text which says "Don't blink"
When the user starts recording, this text disappears and another text which says "start blinking" appears
When the user blinks this other text disappears and a 1 appears, then a 2, and a 3 and so on
After 5 seconds since the user started recording a new text appears, "Finished!"
I know want the blinking counting to stop
Here's what I have to far:
I try to use SikuliX IDE to fill more than one input fields on the same screen. All the fields look like the same. I captured input field, click on it and use type to set value, but text is not present after that process.
Try wait() function between your actions, sometimes you need to wait the gui to get ready for your next action. The default time gap between actions may too tight.
Pretty new to windows phone development...
I'm trying to create an input view that contains a number pad for inputting a sales amount. I know that if you were inputting a number into a text box, you can set the input scope to numeric and then when you click in the text box, a number pad will come up but that's not what I'm trying to do.
I quite literally want the lower half of this screen to be just a number pad that is always up. There is no text box. Rather, as the user is punching in numbers, it'll be displayed in a textblock (a lot like you'd see in a calculator app). I'm not seeing a control for this and google just keeps bringing me back posts about InputScope. I was even thinking of maybe a hack-around where there's an invisible textbox that always has focus, causing the numberpad to always be up, but I don't even know how to cause that behavior either.
Is there a control or technique for this or am I going to have to roll a new user control? Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I would recommend creating your own custom control. That would be the best solution for your condition. There is no inbuilt solution for this situation. I was stuck in the same condition and created a new control with a custom keyboard and a textblock.
And for the hack you mentioned. You can register the LostFocus event of the textbox control and focus the control again using Focus() method of Textbox everytime is loses focus.
Much thought has already gone into practices around validating the user input in a form. I have a programming question about the "inline validation", also called "onblur validation". (A research article about the benefits of inline validation can be found here).
Let's say I have a very simple form with 5 inputs and 1 submit button at the bottom. The user focusse on the first field first. After pressing tab or manually clicking on it, he goes to the second input. This triggers the validation of input field 1. Depending on the techniques used, this might take a few seconds (for example, if a server postback is required to truly validate the field).
MY problem lies with the last field. User will be expecting to see the inline validation after they're done. But users do generally not tab if the next ui element is a button instead of yet another input element. Thus, the onblur validation will not trigger and the user gets no feedback, which they might mistake for erronous input. If they manually click on the submit button, the validation will trigger... but it will also trigger the total form submit, likely leading to another page if all is valid. Now, some users might be smart enough to realize this is onblur validation and they should "click anywhere" to trigger the validation, but I can't really count on that.
I thought of one solution: using the keypress event instead of the onblur event for the last input field of a form. However, the article cited above states it is better to avoid this kind of validation. It would also drastically increase the amount of validation to be done (one time for every keypress)
What are your thoughts on trying to mimic the nonexistant event "user stopped typing but did not focus out of input element"? Can it be done by combineing the keypress event and a timer? (Like, if user did not type anything for 2 seconds, then validate?)
var typingTimer; //timer identifier
var doneTypingInterval = 2000; //time in ms
$('input[type="email"]').keyup(function(){
clearTimeout(typingTimer); //reset the timer
typingTimer = setTimeout(validateEmail, doneTypingInterval);
});
Change validateEmail to the name of the function that validates the email input.
I find it intriguing and couldn't find any special reason as to why the cursor should not advance to the next form field when the field type is "drop-down selection" or "radio button". As in both cases logically there cannot be any additional input.
Is there any attribute which can be applied so that the cursor moves on to the next field.
Consider how many forms are filled daily worldwide and how much time being wasted if there is no special reason.
STOP! What you are trying to do will break keyboard users. In fact, any change you make will break somebody's workflow.
Auto-tab should not be used for any field, ever.
Who knows your field is going to auto tab? Nobody. Why? Because that's not what fields do on the web. So, I press tab out of habit to get to the next field, what did I do? Oh no, I've tabbed past the next field, thanks to an unexpected auto-tab. Now I'll just have to tab back.
I'm editing a field, there are enough characters in the field already, I want to overwrite some characters in the field, oh no! I'm being auto-tabbed out of it before I can finish!
I'm a keyboard user, I use the up and down arrows to change the value in a select or radio. These are triggering onchange events every time I press them, even though I haven't finished changing the value to the value I want.
When I want to tab to the next field, I'll jolly well press it myself thanks.
There is a very special reason not to autotab, and this doesn't really waste any time (unless you're developing something for somebody to use constantly for several hours at a time). The special reason is you're following the principle of least astonishment.
Start with attribute tabindex="-1"
JQuery style:
$('.something').each(function(){
this.tabIndex = -1;
});
Ok, I was asking for logic and it looks like I have found a reasonable answer to myself.
The cursor stays there and doesn't auto-tab to the next field as next field type may be a radio field or again a drop-down selection field, where auto-tab cannot take any action for example selecting an option from multiple radio options.
But I still feel that there should be an option of auto-tab depending on where it can be used or where it can be omitted.
Auto tab is an important and needed feature. Why, for example, should I have to press the tab key after entering in my area code before I can type in the next 3 numbers? From a user experience perspective, that's really annoying. I would think there would be an attribute built into HTML5 or CSS3 to accomplish this. I found this thread as I'm looking for it. If anyone has an update, please share.