# Show button after use key **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [February 1, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/show-button-after-use-key/440134 "2020-02-01T22:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luigi.braidopts7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@luigi.braidopts7](https://community.thunkable.com/u/luigi.braidopts7)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/show-button-after-use-key/440134/1 "2020-02-01T22:36:10Z")
Hello. I am new in THANKABLE X and excuse for my english. I need to make a button visible when i am finished inserting a numeric value in a text box. when entering the number the button must remain hidden. thanks Best Regards ---
**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/show-button-after-use-key/440134/2 "2020-02-01T22:50:35Z")
Welcome to Thunkable! I think what you want to do is not possible in Thunkable right now. Other people have asked for a way to know when text input is finished but that block does not exist yet. ---
**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/show-button-after-use-key/440134/3 "2020-02-02T02:19:06Z")
Maybe if you have some loop running forever every .3 seconds that starts once the screen starts. the loop could check for the length of the text within that text box. once the length is equal to or longer than the minimum number, enable the button. ---
**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/show-button-after-use-key/440134/4 "2020-02-02T05:00:55Z")
@jared Good thinking. I was trying to create a demo of something like that earlier today ([project link](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/729d79615a62410922f2c7790ea01ea4)) but the web preview kept crashing and I gave up. The problem, I think, is that the loop condition will be true once you type the first character into the text input. But I still want to try it. This won’t run… it just crashes before it even hides the button: ![Screen Shot 2020-02-01 at 8.55.05 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/4/2/42a239d3a62a6e147ccdd694f9933e6b2a0f5292.png) ---
**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/show-button-after-use-key/440134/5 "2020-02-02T05:12:31Z")
Is there an exact length for the numeric value? For example, if it was always a 4-digit number such as 8529, I think I could provide a solution. This doesn’t seem to crash Thunkable Live on my iPhone although it doesn’t work in the web preview: ![Screen Shot 2020-02-01 at 9.04.12 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/1/d/1d866b73a9c71eac6117c1e1ffc4bee9f7f9ad32.png) ---
**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 5:24am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/show-button-after-use-key/440134/6 "2020-02-02T05:24:40Z")
There have been several feature requests about this issue: > > > Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. > It is currently impossible to perform context-sensitive logic related to Text Input... > > > 1.) I use a textbox as a search field. To make the user experience comparable to the safari browser searching, I... ---
**Author:** ![luigi.braidopts7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@luigi.braidopts7](https://community.thunkable.com/u/luigi.braidopts7)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 11:09am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/show-button-after-use-key/440134/7 "2020-02-02T11:09:35Z")
Wow you are fantastic, this community is very active, Yes, in my project idea I have 2 text box only numeric, the first have maximum 3 numbers, the second have maximum 5 numbers thankyou. ---
**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/show-button-after-use-key/440134/8 "2020-02-02T19:04:00Z")
Having a max length isn’t going to help in this case. If the number HAD TO BE a certain length (3 digits) then we could check the length of the text input and once it was 3, we could show the button. But that won’t work if 4 and 44 and 444 are all acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![luigi.braidopts7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@luigi.braidopts7](https://community.thunkable.com/u/luigi.braidopts7)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/show-button-after-use-key/440134/9 "2020-02-04T13:15:27Z")
hi tatiang thank you for your interest, you have right. it’s really a pity, an event would be enough after hitting enter on the keyboard best regards ---
**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, 11:41am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/show-button-after-use-key/440134/10 "2024-11-08T11:41:15Z")