How to disable the backspace key/delete key?

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How to disable the backspace key/delete key?

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yihuanlai	yihuanlai posted 8 Years Ago HOT Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 7, Visits: 44	Hi there, I am completely new to Inquisit. So I want to let participants retype a passage. They will see the passage and they will retype it in the textbox. I want to disable the backspace key of Windows / delete keys of Mac so that they could not go back to change the mistakes. How to do this? What is the exact code? -Yihuan Tags disable key
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Dave	Dave posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 103K	I'm afraid this is not possible, neither using <textbox> nor <openended>.
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yihuanlai	yihuanlai posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 7, Visits: 44	Hi Dave, thanks for your reply. So is it possible to record how many times they've pressed the backspace key?
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Dave	Dave posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 103K	Unfortunately that isn't possible either.
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yihuanlai	yihuanlai posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 7, Visits: 44	Dave, thanks for your reply! I really appreciate it! I did some research and found this FingerTapping task: http://www.millisecond.com/download/library/FingerTapping/. It records the number of times participants press the space key. I wonder if I could use its code and make some changes to it, so that I could record the number of times the backspace key being pressed when the participants type in the textbox?
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Dave	Dave posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 103K	No, it's not possible. The textbox does not fire any accessible event upon each key press that occurs, i.e., you cannot count how often a given key was pressed when typing in a textbox.
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