Input support - Input type

Overview

In Animate you can create different text elements - Static text, Dynamic text and Input text. For each of them, you can specify the text behavior.

Creating an input text will leads to exporting it to an <input> or <textarea> tag depending on the behavior you've selected.

  • Single line behavior will export the input text element as <input type="text">.
  • Multiline and Mulitine no-wrap behavior will export the input text as <textarea>.
  • Password behavior will export the input text as <input type="password>".

Since the HTML standard offers a greater range of possibilities for the type of input text we've added a dropdown in the Properties tab which enables you to change the type of input text.

Supported input types

The input types you can choose from the drop-down select are:

  • Animate's default - This option will set the input type as the input text behavior defined in Animate:
    • Single line behavior - The input type won't be exported.
    • Password behavior - The exported type will be password.
  • text - With this option the input type will be set to text.
  • button - With this option the input type will be set to button.
  • number - With this option the input type will be set to number.
  • url - With this option the input type will be set to url.
  • email - With this option the input type will be set to email.

Supported input types in the Player:

  • text.
  • password.
  • button.

The other input types are needed for opening a virtual keyboard in UE4.

If you select some of the not supported types and run the scene in Player then a warning will be shown for not supported input type.

Selecting a different option from Animate's default will overwrite the exported input type based on the input text behavior.
To specify the type of input text you should first wrap it inside a symbol element! The input type option is specified for the symbol's input text child elements.
Selecting an input type from the panel will add your choice to all of the symbol children's input text elements with behavior Single line or Password.
Input text elements with behavior Multiline and Mulitine no wrap inside a symbol will be exported as a textarea. The textarea element has no type attribute so the selected input type from the panel will not reflect these elements.

Example

  1. Create an input text with behavior - Single line or Password.
  2. Convert this element to symbol - Right-click -> Convert to symbol or select this element and press F8.
  3. From the properties tab in the children's options section select the input type to be whatever you want.
  4. Export and preview the result.

Exported result

  1. The input type is set to none.
  2. The input type is set to text.
  3. The input type is set to password.
  4. The input type is set to button.
  5. There is no input type for textarea.
  6. The input type is set to number.
  7. The input type is set to url.
  8. The input type is set to email.