# Handle textbox text changing

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/handle-textbox-text-changing/146595>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [July 17, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/handle-textbox-text-changing/146595 "2019-07-17T20:25:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Mr\_Nicolas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mr_nicolas/32/34033_2.png) [@Mr\_Nicolas](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Mr_Nicolas)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/handle-textbox-text-changing/146595/1 "2019-07-17T20:25:23Z")

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hello dear community!  
i want to create search bar in my app and need to handle textbox text changing for showing results while user input. how can i make this?

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**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 7:10am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/handle-textbox-text-changing/146595/2 "2019-07-18T07:10:30Z")

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Hello, use the timer to get the value from this field.

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Nicolas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mr_nicolas/32/34033_2.png) [@Mr\_Nicolas](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Mr_Nicolas)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/handle-textbox-text-changing/146595/3 "2019-07-18T22:42:18Z")

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And what is time of timer for start. When will it start?

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**Author:** ![kartik\_old](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/kartik_old/32/28305_2.png) [@kartik\_old](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik_old)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/handle-textbox-text-changing/146595/4 "2019-07-19T02:27:30Z")

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Hello there, @Mr_Nicolas! 👋  
If you want to create something like a **Dynamic TextBox** , you should use **timer** which fires every 0.25 seconds to check text from the textbox.

😉

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**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/handle-textbox-text-changing/146595/5 "2019-07-19T08:32:08Z")

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On the scrFinder you will find my example.

[https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5cd84f23e3097f3353fdad45/project/properties/designer/](https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5cd84f23e3097f3353fdad45/project/properties/designer/)

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/handle-textbox-text-changing/146595/6 "2024-11-08T12:12:12Z")

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