I'm trying to create an input form similar to a text message. I have a large textbox for the message, and I have a small textbox that is read-only that I want to show the character count.
I got this to work by setting the default value of the small textbook to the string length of the large textbox. This works correctly, but I would like to update the small textbox every time a character is entered into the large textbox, not every time I click off of the large textbox.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Note: It's been several months, so since I found an answer to this question, I'll post it to help anyone else looking for the same thing.
This is not possible using the default controls and properties in InfoPath 2007. In general, InfoPath can only respond to events when a field's value is finished being modified. It may be possible to do this with a custom ActiveX control.
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I am trying to make my job easier by creating simple AHK scrips to auto-fill certain forms online.
Im not really good at explaining, but hopefully someone will understand what Im saying. The problem is that this website has certain textboxes with dropdown auto-suggestions turned on, and it has a delay when selecting those textboxes. I assume when selecting textbox it is pulling data from some database which is causing delay. Now my question is. Is it possible to turn off dropdown menu on websites or even in entire browser if necessary? I really want to my script to tab-in, wright down whats needed, tab-out without delay.
Autocomplete dropdown lists are just JS scripts. So there is no way, I think, to disable them by clicking checkbox in browser settings.
First, try to disable JS completely.
Also, if only few sites are involved, you could try to find out what JS libraries are used and disable them in browser JS console.
Are you planning to do this via keypresses or via COM?
I imagine that via keypresses you could not avoid focusing the elements and triggering the information lookup.
AutoHotkey can interact with webpages on Internet Explorer using COM (Component Object Model).
COM can launch/latch onto an IE instance, detect if the page is loading/has loaded, navigate to a particular url, and set the text of web elements,
quite possibly without triggering the drop-down lists. I haven't tested if COM can disable elements, it's possible.
Also, Acc.ahk may be able to set the text of elements.
I was wondering if there are any ways to place a Listboxfor inside a Texboxfor? I am using Bootstrap in a MVC project for a registration page and have a text field for character name input and a dropdownlist field for a server select. Currently, they are placed consecutively, but I was thinking it would be visually appealing to have the dropdownlist inside the textbox as they are interrelated.
Thanks for the help!
It's not clear what you're trying to achieve here, but you cannot place a drop down list inside a textbox. That's not how the HTML elements work.
If you just want the drop down list next to the textbox, just put one directly after the other. They're both inline elements (by default, though you may have CSS that changes that behavior), so they'll naturally flow together.
If you're talking about having a combo box, where you start typing and options appear based on entered text, that's JavaScript-based functionality. There's tons of plugins online for that type of thing. Just do a search on Google and integrate one that works best for your needs.
I have a set of 10 controls in a single page.
When i am entering one field, a 'Loading.....' symbol occurs on the top of the page.
But still i am able to edit the other fields in the same page.
Is there any methods (or) functions in Orbeon which will blur all other fields when one field is entered with the values?
So that no field will be editable.
For Eg:when some pop-windows opens all other fields at the back will be made blurred and non-editable.
Similarly it must be for fields in the same page
There is no way, out-of-the-box, to "blur" all the other fields while a user is entering data in one field.
The Loading indicator tells users that information is being exchanged between the browser and the server in the background, just as if you had an indication "Autosaving…", but I don't really see why or in which situation preventing the user from filling out another field while this is happening would be useful. (This is somewhat off-topic, purely based on your question, but if you have feedback on this, feel free to leave a comment below.)
I'm working on a simple delphi program that will get the data from a RS232 barcode reader and copy it to wherever the cursor currently is (if it's an editable field). Specifically I will have to make this work with a web broser to fill a form.
The barcode reading part is ok, I get the numeric data back, but I'm stuck on how to find the correct place to paste it. How can i get the current cursor position and send the data there?
Thanks!
Edit: the user will open a form inside a webpage where one of the fields (<input type="text">) is for the barcode. When they pull the trigger on the reader I would like to have the field filled
I have a regular text input field, whose value is submitted via AJAX. After I migrate away from this page, and hit Back button, I can still see the value of the field there.
My questions are:
Does most of modern browsers support this user-entered values?
How can I remove the persisted value using Rails?
Thank you.
Your browser is remembering the form input values and displaying them when you go back. This likely doesn't have anything to do with Rails*.
You can't really do anything via Ruby/Rails code to change this behavior, but you can do it with JavaScript. Here's a random SO question that covers it: Reset form on Back button.
I'm not sure if there's a perfect way to handle this in every browser. Also note that many users would prefer that the browser keep the form values they've entered.
Note: I only qualify with "likely" because it is possible to write an app that explicitly remembers form values and restores them when the page is visited again, but by default, Rails isn't going to do that. It'd involve a fair bit of Rails and JavaScript code.
Does most of modern browsers support this user-entered values?
Yes, I believe they all support it to various degrees
How can I remove the persisted value using Rails?
This is a client side issue, not a Rails issue. You could use javascript to clear the input fields
A similar question and answer: Clear all fields in a form upon going back with browser back button
BFCache? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Working_with_BFCache