Field COMP event tracking

Beginners
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Is there any way to track events in a field before hitting ENTER? I’m trying to track number of characters inputted and position of the cursor but the only way I’ve found to track anything is to DatEXEC the field/string as a cellChange event. i.e. can’t detect anything until ENTER pressed.

Any advice?

Michela

2

use a panel chop to get UV coords and then just use the strlen() (tscript) or len() (python) expression in an evaluate dat to get the number of characters in the dat?

3

I’ll update the wiki to make this more accessible, but use an info DAT and an info CHOP on the field/text TOP. info DAT will give you the currently displayed text, and info CHOP will give you the cursor positions. Also, text TOP python members curText, cursorStart, cursorEnd etc.

To get the keys entered, use Panel Execute DAT to monitor the key panel value.