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I have a text object in which I write some data in authoring mode.

I put these data into a variable and other functions get data from this variable to execute some other functions in runtime mode.

Unfortunately it seems that the data in the text object are only written into the variable in runtime mode when you press Enter when this object has the focus.

What I like to do is to write the data from the text object into the variable on page start without clicking on it and pressing Enter.

Any idea how to to this?

T.

Addendum:

As I learned a few minutes ago is that what I meant in the posting above is rather a text field or a text input box than a text object.

T.

I am not sure I fully follow what you are trying to do. If you want to
preset the text input box without tryping or hitting enter you can set a
value for the varialbe used for the text input in the publication properties
Variables Tab.

Hope this helps

Brenden Knifton

Brenden,

sorry that I had not explained this a bit more detailed.

I have several pages with multiple choice questions with one question on each page. Each question has 5 checkboxes which the user can tick. On each page different checkboxes are correct answers.

What I want to do is simply write the right combinations in a textfield on each page.
For example on page 1: "2,3,5" On page 2; "1,2,4" and so on.

The textfield is only visible in authoring mode.

I do this in this way because it is very easy to see on first sight which answeres are correct. And it is very easy to change these settings without going to Actions and set a variable to do the same.

As there is no textinput in runtime mode the variable in which I store the combination for each page does not update.

So I look for a way to update the variable on each page start automatically with the text from the invisible textfield.

T.

Hi Tarantoga,

My understanding of what you are attempting to do is to enter data into a variable, using a text input box, in Preview mode, and then, later,
also in Preview mode, display the same data when the page is
opened at a later time.

The only way I know to do this in Opus, is to store the variable by writing the variable/data to an external file, and then, later, when the page is opened (On Show, or Preshow), read the same file, and the data into the same variable (or a different variable, if your choose.)

I hope this helps !

Steve Hawley

Hi Steve,

thanks for your reply. I think you are right.

What is really missing - or at least I have not found it - is the possibility to put the text from a normal textfield into a variable via scripting. Something like:

var newtext = text (mytext) or var newtext = mytext.text

Another way to solve this without scripting could be a new property of text fields which can be marked as "text output". The text of these text fields should be stored with the publication and should write their texts into a user defined variable on startup.

Maybe I overlooked something and putting text from a normal text field into a variable can be done via scripting though. If so I would be glad If someone could tell me how to do this.

T.

Look at SetSelection() and GetSelectionText() in the script help. This will allow you to retrieve the text from any text object.

Please take a look at the attached example:


Regards

Brenden Knifton

Duncan, Brenden,

thank you very much. This is exactly what I was looking for

T.