On 11/06/2013 10:41, Benjamin wrote:
> This is the expected behaviour :)

Oh!  A bit unorthodox, specially considering the shortcut (CTRL+S) --I
was expecting something like ENTER :-)

> But what you can do (and actually what you wanna do) is to accept the
> text at each keyStroke :)
>
>> initializePresenter
>>  self instantiateModels: #(
>>         textName             TextModel
>>         labelGreeting    LabelModel
>>         buttonGreet        ButtonModel 
>>     ).
>>  labelGreeting text: ''.
>>     buttonGreet label: 'Greet Me!'; disable.
>
> should be turned into:
>
> #initializePresenter
> textName := self newTextInput.
> labelGreeting := self newLabel.
> buttonGreet := self newButton.

Would you please explain the RHS of the statements?  I don't understand
`self newTextInput`.

>
> labelGreeting text: ''.
> buttonGreet label: 'Greet Me!'; disable.
> textName autoAccept: true.

It's certainly no big deal but I'm just curious; any special reason why
`autoAccept` doesn't default to true?

> On 06 Nov 2013, at 06:05, Bahman Movaqar <bah...@bahmanm.com
> <mailto:bah...@bahmanm.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm writing a simple graphical version of the legendary "Hello,
>> world".  I have a window with a text field, a button and a label. 
>> What I'm trying to do is to make the button (which is initially
>> disabled) enabled upon user entering text.  However, it seems that
>> the user first must "Accept" the text for the action to be fired.
>>
>> Here's some snippets of code:
>>
>> <code>
>> initializePresenter
>>     textName whenTextChanged: [
>>         buttonGreet enable ].
>>     buttonGreet action: [
>>         labelGreeting text: 'Hello, ', textName text, '!'.
>>         buttonGreet disable ].
>>
>>
>>
>> initializeWidgets
>>     self instantiateModels: #(
>>         textName             TextModel
>>         labelGreeting    LabelModel
>>         buttonGreet        ButtonModel
>>     ).
>>    
>>     labelGreeting text: ''.
>>     buttonGreet label: 'Greet Me!'; disable.
>> </code>
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> PS:  I have tried `whenTextChanged` to no avail --it shows the same
>> behaviour.

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