ControlP5 Textfield

Vani4ka

Hey! What I want to do using the ControlP5 library: create an input textfield, where I can write limited amount of characters, e.g. minimum 1 and maximum 10 and after pressing Enter to save the String in another variable. ONLY ONE input should be possible (so I have to block the field somehow after receiving the input)! Problems: - I don't know how to limit the chracters amount and the number of inputs to only one - After running the sketch the text field is active and I can write there as usual, but once I click outside I can't activate the field again. I think it's because in my code there is a mouseClicked() function, but I don't know how to fix this...

P.S. Is the variable secretMessage right in the public void input(String theText) or should/could it be somewhere else? Thank you!

My code (not complete):

`import controlP5.*;

ControlP5 cp5;

String textValue = ""; String secretMessage;

void setup() { size(700,400);

PFont font = createFont("arial",20);

cp5 = new ControlP5(this);

cp5.addTextfield("input") .setPosition(20,100) .setSize(200,40) .setFont(font) .setFocus(true) .setColor(color(255,0,0)) .setMax(3); ;

textFont(font); }

void draw() { background(0); fill(255); text(textValue, 360,180); }

public void clear() { cp5.get(Textfield.class,"textValue").clear(); }

public void input(String theText) { secretMessage=theText; println("Your secret message: "+secretMessage+" has length "+secretMessage.length()); }

...

void mouseClicked() { for(int i=0;i<n;i++) { if(mouseX>x[i] && mouseX<(x[i]+105) && mouseY>y[i] && mouseY<(y[i]+130)&& clicked[i]==false) { doSomething(); } } }`