## Prompt for Text

The Prompt for Text function is used to interact with a running action. The entered text will be saved in one of Variable 0 - Variable 9 or a named variable.

The supplied text strings may contain any of the escape sequences described in Escape Sequences. The prompt is a multi line scrolling area.

You can choose to pre-fill the text value with the contents of a specified field.

You can set the text color for the prompt to one of Black, Blue or Red.

Typically the name of the action issuing the prompt, the file it is associated with and the reason for the prompt are displayed in the Pending Action window. You can disable the display of this information by selecting the Hide info option.

You can force the display of a picker button used to insert values. The values are taken from a list in the Prompt for Text List named variable. The default list delimiter \~ and newline characters (\n) can be used as list delimiters.

You can elect to issue a beep with the prompt.

You can switch to a multi line editor via the Multi Line Editor button.

The prompt is only issued once per set of files when executed stepwise.

The function is valid while batch processing but is intended to be used within the special Batch Start and Batch End inline actions.