Text input immediate feedback

Hi all,
I have a couple of text input boxes on my slide that have
correct answers
assigned to them. The correct answers are all single digit
numbers (it's a
Sudoku game). I would like the Success and Failure captions
to appear as
soon as they type that single digit. Right now, they have to
press Enter to
see if their entry is correct, which seems tedious.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Marg

Can you elaborate your need ?

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