I’d like to autosave the text entered in the textbox fields (name, address, number) automatically so if the user closes the app or changes page and then comes back the fields will be already filled as he left it. I’m thinking about saving every few seconds but would probably stress the phone? Or no…

Checking everything to see if they changed would likely be more demanding on the cpu than simply saving everything every few seconds, because checking means pulling the previous value out of storage for comparison, which is as much work as saving. Plus, you have that comparison and the saving. Dire…

Check it from scrFinder on ACtech demo project (see link on bottom) Best regards, Alex ACtech demo project Thunkable X Basic Programming Course Block Reference Component Reference Bug tracker

I did it but I’m not sure if it’s resource intensive

Save a textbox entry without pressing any button

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jared November 29, 2019, 5:33am 3

Hello! I am wondering if you came to a final solution for this. I am interested in this as well. What worked for you?

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