Python code to automate return key press, tab key press, or mouse click

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Hi all,

I feel like this should be a fairly simple line of python, but I can’t for the life of me figure it out.

In a nutshell, I am having users of my interface enter text into a text comp, and what I am looking for is a line of code to de-focus the text comp after they are done entering text.

As far as I can tell, there are any number of ways to remove focus from editing the text comp: you can press the return key, or the tab key, or mouse click off of the comp itself to de-focus. But I am looking for a line of code that I can add to a button press to automate this action.

If possible, I would like to avoid having to import an external python library.

Thanks for advising!!!

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perhaps an easy fix is to set the Text COMP’s editmode parameter to “locked”.
Does that work for your case?

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Hi Nettoyeur,

Thanks for your response!

That won’t work in this case, as I need the text to be editable by users and to update live, as it is plugging directly into a display where the text is live updating as they type.

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if you set the parameter to locked and then immediately to editable again, the focus will be gone

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Ah! Genius! That did not occur to me!

Thank you!!!