[PBXhowTos]

Hey there,

I am new to MobiOne and I am trying to make a simple app but I am stuck at being able to do a certain function.

I have a button next to a text field and I want to populate the text field when I push the button with the current time.

any ideas how I can do this? I have tried many ways but have been unsuccessful.

thanks in advance!
CJ

[support-octavio]

Hi CJ,

I posted a solution for a similar request here: http://www.genuitec.com/support-genuitec/viewtopic.php?p=6288#p6288

Hope it helps to you.

[PBXhowTos]

@support-octavio wrote:

Hi CJ,

I posted a solution for a similar request here: http://www.genuitec.com/support-genuitec/viewtopic.php?p=6288#p6288

Hope it helps to you.

I saw this post but that did not help me.

I made a simple button, textfield app. When I click on the button, nothing gets populated into the textfield. do I need to do something to some other file for this to work?

[support-octavio]

Hi CJ,

Could you share the line of code that is not working for you to populate your text field? I suspect that is a syntax error.

[PBXhowTos]

@support-octavio wrote:

Hi CJ,

Could you share the line of code that is not working for you to populate your text field? I suspect that is a syntax error.

Here you go:

//update the text of the input field
$('#m1-StatusUpdateApp-textField2').val('TIME NOW')

[support-octavio]

Hi CJ,

Please try with:

$('#m1-StatusUpdateApp-textField2').text('TIME NOW')

Let me know how it goes.

[PBXhowTos]

@support-octavio wrote:

Hi CJ,

Please try with:

$('#m1-StatusUpdateApp-textField2').text('TIME NOW')

Let me know how it goes.

changed it to that and nothing happens. I click the button and the text field does not update.

[support-octavio]

Q: is this a secondary screen? Where are you adding this code? Do you have more than one <Design-name>_custom.js file?

[PBXhowTos]

@support-octavio wrote:

Q: is this a secondary screen? Where are you adding this code? Do you have more than one <Design-name>_custom.js file?

To test, all I did was drop a text field and a button as soon as a new project is started. Then I added the code to the button on JavaScript action. That’s it.

[PBXhowTos]

Here is what I did exactly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvqYCoyoROw

[support-michael]

Please see this collection of snippets:
http://www.genuitec.com/mobile/docs/javaScriptSnippets/javaScriptSnippets.html#input_field_widget_snippets

[PBXhowTos]

@support-wayne wrote:

Please see this collection of snippets:
http://www.genuitec.com/mobile/docs/javaScriptSnippets/javaScriptSnippets.html#input_field_widget_snippets

I did. Hence where I got the code from and does not resolve the issue. Do I have to put the entire HTML code in the JavaScript box? did you see my video of how I added the button and text field?

thanks.

[support-michael]

Try either of the following snippets

//jquery selects the node by its id
$('#m1-Untitled3-textField1').val(123)

//jquery selects the node that ends with the string textField1
$('[id*=textField1]').val('123')

[support-octavio]

Hi PBXhowTos,

I suspect that next line that you shared is OK, just the textField should be textField1, could you try again with this? @PBXhowTos wrote:

Here you go:

//update the text of the input field
$('#m1-StatusUpdateApp-textField2').val('TIME NOW')

$('#m1-StatusUpdateApp-textField1').val('TIME NOW');

In case that the problem continues let me know to share a simple example.

[PBXhowTos]

@support-wayne wrote:

Try either of the following snippets

//jquery selects the node by its id
$('#m1-Untitled3-textField1').val(123)

//jquery selects the node that ends with the string textField1
$('[id*=textField1]').val('123')

Thank you!! That worked.

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