Custom Text Entry
Fancy way to get text entry
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It maybe overkill and silly but at times I am very irritated with the regular way of getting input. It’s ugly and small.
Everything here is hard coded so you will need to know W3 CSS to change it but it is all customizable. Just don’t mess with the script for the copy function or the ID’s unless you know how to change them back.
Text is copied to the system keyboard so use a get keyboard action to retrieve the text that is entered.
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@Mbierman
Interesting! Is there a way to pass the value back to the Shortcut without using the clipboard? Sometimes that could cause problems.
It would be nice to see a series of these... for example, HTML would handle number input much better than Shortcuts does.
Nice work.
Reply · 8 months, 1 week ago
Reply · 8 months, 1 week ago
@Beneto
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Yes there is other options.
You can edit the html to use color picker, date picker and others. I will probably put up a bigger one that gives examples.
I believe there is a way to get the input other ways besides the clipboard but there is a lot of limitations on both web kit and what you can do in shortcuts.
Right now my limited understanding is that to get the data back out as text without clipboard would require more of a run JavaScript approach (which means leaving shortcuts).
Reply · 8 months ago
Reply · 8 months ago