Re: Mobile text input mystery

[Mark Waddingham via use-livecode]

On 2020-04-22 17:00, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
As usual, the problem will be my fault, but I can’t get a mobile input
field to appear on a card. I’m debugging it at present, which explains
the answer statement:
    on opencard -- we dynamically create a field for the user to key in
     global sinputID -- this is all from the LC lesson. It’s a global
because I need to refer to it in a button later
     if environment() = "mobile" then
         mobileControlCreate "input", "FMyText" -- so the user can type 
in
         put the result into sinputID — the Dictionary doesn’t mention
‘the result’ but it does seem to be right
         answer "opening text field for input. ID created is:" && 
sinputID
        mobileControlSet sinputID, "rect", “114,135,163,158” — this is
a real location on the card
        mobileControlSet sinputID, "visible", "true"
        mobileControlSet sinputID, "opaque", "true"
  end if
end opencard

I'm pretty sure if you give your mobileControl a name (FMyText) in this 
case, then that is the only way you can refer to it. You can only use 
'the result' of the Create function *if* you didn't give it a name.

So you need to do either:

  mobileControlCreate "input", "FMyText"
  mobileControlSet "FMyText", ...

OR

  mobileControlCreate "input"
  put the result into sinputID
  mobileControlSet sinputID, ...

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
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