That worked. Thank you so very much!
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:48 +0100, Martin Vidner wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 07:59:41PM -0400, Justin Haygood wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get the value of a YUI TextEntry (all in Perl).
> > >
> > > I created the TextEntry via:
> > >
> > > my $TextInput = TextEntry("Some Text","");
> > >
> > > This let me add it to the VBOX:
> > >
> > > my $c = VBox(
> > > $TextInput,
> > > PushButton("&OK")
> > > );
> > >
> > > UI->OpenDialog($c);
> > > UI->UserInput();
> > > UI->CloseDialog();
> > >
> > > However, you can't get the value from either:
> > >
> > > $value = $TextInput->Value; // Most Logical
> > > $value = UI->QueryWidget( $TextInput, "Value" ); // Second Most Logical
> > >
> > > What do I have to do in order to do this? Is this just incomplete Perl
> > > bindings?
>
> Hi Justin,
>
> my $TextInput = TextEntry(id("Input"), "Some Text","");
>
> This does not create the widget. It only creates a recipe (a term) for the
> widget. So $TextInput->Value does not work. However,
> $TextInput->name returns "TextEntry". Same with all the other
> widgets.
>
> The widgets only live in the dialogs, and you do not get objects
> representing them. You can only access them via UI functions using
> their ids as handles.
> So UI->QueryWidget( $TextInput, "Value" ) does not work either, but
> UI->QueryWidget(id("Input"), Symbol("Value") ) does.
> (The "Symbol" is a necessity that I forgot to do away with. In YCP
> it is just `Value vs "Value")
>
> The fact that widgets only live inside dialogs also means that after
> you close a dialog, you can no longer query its widgets. So
> QueryWidget must come before CloseDialog.
>
> Attached is a working version.
>
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