Value Box and Text Box Gadgets Contents Highlighted for Edits

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Hello,

Would it be possible for the contents of the Text Box and Value Box to be highlighted in its entirety when clicked to be edited? or the keyboard to focus on its content and activate the cursor inside the cell?

Currently, you have to click the cell, then click on the value and highlight it or delete it. I understand it could be limitations when it comes to browsers and how they respond.

Thank you.

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Which version of groov View are you using, and which browser? I thought that worked correctly in all browsers. I just did a quick check here with Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, and they’re doing the right thing.

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We are currently running groov version R4.2a (r57686) on Chrome. I assuming I need to update it, right?

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Yeah, there was a fix for that in version 4.3a. Focusing worked properly on macOS and Linux, but on Windows we had to delay just a bit to wait for the renderer to catch up before focusing that field.

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Is the filed highlighting supposed to work when using a touchscreen connected directly to an EPIC? I have a customer where this isn’t working on firmware 3.5.1-b.85, groov view R4.5b.

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On EPIC touchscreens, I don’t think so: if we focus the field immediately, that’ll immediately bring up the onscreen keyboard and obscure things. I don’t have a touchscreen monitor handy to plug into my EPIC right now, but I’ll give it a look when I get a chance.

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This is what they see when they tap a text box gadget:

  • A full screen numeric entry screen with keyboard displays with the value to edit at the top. (Note that they do not know if they tapped the correct gadget as this screen doesn’t show the pre or post prompt, it only has the numeric text box and the keyboard, so that is sometimes a problem for them.)
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  • They have to use the backspace on the on-screen keyboard to remove the existing value, enter the new value and then press return.
  • Then they need to press OK on the small Edit Value window (which will show the pre and post prompt - so they verify after they enter the value and cancel if they have the incorrect tag).
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We are scheduled to update the firmware today so I will see if any of this changes with the latest.

Edit: updated to 3.6.0 firmware and the behavior is the same.

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