Moving on to next slide right after completion of TEB (text entry box).

Hello all--
I'm using Captivate 4.
I have a system training course where we require learners to enter the appropriate date into an TEB.  After the date is entered, I want Captivate to move on to the next slide.  For example, on screen 1, the learner enters '060510', then Captivate should move on to the next slide.
I can make Captivate work great with text menus:  for example, if the learner enters the correct menu item 'A', then I can set the shortcut key to A which causes Captivate to move to the next slide right away and very nicely.  But I can't figure out how to make this work with dates.  Any suggestions???

Hi there
What you need is a shortcut key to trigger the action. Captivate makes it super easy to assign shortcuts, but they aren't without issues.
For example, some shortcut keys are always interpreted by the browser and therefore cannot be used reliably. In your case a likely shortcut would be to assign 0 as the shortcut. But this has issues because the first character typed is a 0. So the first time 0 were pressed an error would likely be issued because the field isn't complete yet and doesn't match the expected date.
I've seen this asked about before. What is really needed here is for Captivate to allow configuring a Text Entry Box object so it is constantly on the hunt for a specific string the author configures. Once the criteria has been satisfied, the assigned action occurs. You (and anyone else that wants to see this emerge as a feature) should ask Adobe via the Wish Form (link is in my sig).
Cheers... Rick
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