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Evan Berrett
Evan Berrett
Inspiring
March 26, 2014
Question

How to remove pause from Text Entry Box

  • March 26, 2014
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Saw a discussion on this in the archives, but didn't exactly address what I was hoping. Basically I'm hoping to use a Text Entry box to allow a user to save notes for the project. Yes, I know that there is a notes widget, but I'm not a fan of it. Is there a way to remove the automatic pausing of the TEB? Or is there something else someone else has done to allow users to take notes rather than the Notes widget?

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MatthewStoddard
Participant
August 2, 2021

I had the same issue because I am creating a course where I want learners to be able to enter notes as they watch a video. What I did was set the text entry box to pause 0.1 seconds before the end of the slide. Since I have a 'continue' button that appears 1 sec before the end of the slide and pauses the slide 0.5 seconds after it appears, the text entry box's timing  never gets a chance to pause the slide because the Continue button does it first.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
March 26, 2014

Do you want a place to write notes, just like that? Try the Scrolling Text Interaction or the TextArea widget.

Lilybiri

Evan Berrett
Evan BerrettAuthor
Inspiring
March 26, 2014

Lilybiri, the scrolling text interaction looks promising since it allows you to assign a variable. However, I don't want to have a review slide at the end of the project has to drawn on a separate variable for each slide notes and some how arrange them together. Seems like a lot of work at the end there. Any idea on how to have notes carry over from one slide to the next compounding into the same variable so that I can simply show a final $$VariableName$$ type caption on a final review slide?

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
March 26, 2014

Will try to check How (being the workaround queen ) later, I am in a webinar, have another one in 10 minutes. Always multitasking

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
March 26, 2014

Hi there

Certainly you are able to configure a TEB so it doesn't pause, but it sort of defeats the purpose. If it's not paused, the viewer will only have as long as it appears on the slide to interact with it. Certainly there is an option to configure if it loses focus, but there is no option to say "pause playback if it gains focus", which is likely what you would need.

Look in the Timing section of the Properties panel if you wish to remove the pause.

Cheers... Rick

Evan Berrett
Evan BerrettAuthor
Inspiring
March 26, 2014

Hopefully I'm not missing something, but other buttons and such have a checkbox next to the "Pause After" portion of timing. TEB boxes do not seem to have this and indeed, even if I set it to 0 or whatever, it just defaults to 0.1 seconds.

I'm hoping to try and use the text I collect from their notes added into this TEB to be able to display at a final review slide before a quiz. Not sure if it's going to work, but I don't want to force a user to use the notes box, hence the disabling of a pause.

I'm open to other ideas of how to allow taking notes without using the notes widget. If there's anything better.

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
March 26, 2014

My bad, you are correct. I must need more coffee!

The TEB will always pause. But as I explained earlier, if the slide doesn't pause, there isn't much time for the user to interact with it. Likely the reason you cannot turn off the pause.

Cheers... Rick

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