I'm not aware of an eval function exposed in GWT, but you should just
be able to create a JSNI function to do whatever you want in JS,
something like:
native String evalStuff(String javascript, String story)
/*-{
return eval(javascript);
}-*/;
On Apr 1, 9:47 am, markww <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two textareas set up:
>
> [textarea1] [textarea2]
>
> in textarea1, I enter some text from a story, like "Once upon a time".
> in textarea2, I enter some text I want to evaluate as javascript.
>
> when I hit a button, I want to grab the contents of textarea2, call
> eval() on it, which can modify the contents of textarea1. It'll do
> something like maybe make all the words in textarea1 all caps. Ideally
> something like:
>
> public void onButtonClickedGo() {
> String story = textarea1.getText();
> String javascript = textarea2.getText();
>
> String newStory = GWT.eval(javascript, story);
> textarea1.setText(newStory);
> }
>
> I know the above is wildly incorrect, just trying to illustrate what i
> want to do. I know eval is dangerous, this is just a tool I want to
> use for personal use. Is this possible? I'm not sure how to do this in
> GWT.
>
> Thanks
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