Hi
I've been trying to write a script designed to clone a text box and text-input content, with no success.
What I've done as an experiment so far:
I've set up an Opus Pro pub with a page on which are a text input box (input1), saving text input to a variable and a text box (nametext) with the variable (<name>) inserted. When text is entered into the text input box, it appears in the text box as well.
I've set up a script to clone the text box and set each new clone's position at another location on the page, via right-click on the text input box. This works.
The script:
Quote:
myClone[ref] = nametext.CloneObject(160,90,true);
ref++
if (ref == 0)
{
myClone = new Array();
}
All needed variables for the scripts have been added.
Then I've set up a "save" button with the following script:
Quote:
save = ref + ",";
for (loop=0;loop<ref;loop++)
{
var pos = myClone[loop].GetPosition();
myClone[loop].SetSelectionText(0,-1)
var myName = myClone[loop].GetSelection()
var objdata = pos.x + "," + pos.y +"," + myName;
}
save += objdata;
if (loop < (ref - 1))
{
save += ",";
}
}
I've also set up a save to text file action for the variable "save"
Here's the first problem: when the pub is previewed, an error pop-up when the "save" button is clicked says :
Action (5, 0) : Object Not Found : The called object is not a valid object type (undefined? null?)
So, I'm stuck here.
As if this wasn't daunting enough, I realize that another whole layer of scripting would need to be added to any solution, to create a way to store each new text item in each newly cloned text box. Each box would have different text, like a user name, birthdate, etc. entered. If, I continue to use a single variable, every time any new text is entered in the "master" text input box, it would change the text of every cloned text box as well to this new input. (Instead of, for example, Charlie and Jane, and their separate birthdays, all the cloned text boxes would read the same: the last text input.) Ugh!
Lastly, I'll include my proposed script to reset the clones in their dropped position, upon returning to the page. Currently, for testing, this script is included in a "reset" button. Since I can't get past the error pop-up in the "save" button, I haven't even tested the reset script, but it likely also suffers from errors.
Reset script:
Quote:
textobj = OpenFile(SYSTEM_DOCUMENTS_DIR + "\\folderabc\\pos.txt");
ref = textobj.ReadField(false);
for (loop = 0; loop < ref; loop++)
{
x = textobj.ReadField(false);
y = textobj.ReadField(false);
z = textobj.ReadField(false)
myClone[loop] = nametext.CloneObject(x,y,true);
myClone[loop] = nametext.ReplaceSelection(z)
}
I'm afraid my scripting skills are far too limited, though I may be on the "right track." I would appreciate any help from Forum scripting experts who can give me some ideas about how to get this working. The goal is to be able to clone, drag and drop text boxes, each with different text entered, onto a drop zone, save and reset these in their correct positions with the correct text that had been entered for each text box.
My current way of achieving a more limited means of label-creating is running into difficulty: see Form posting
viewtopic.php?t=2344
Thanks for any assistance.
Kind Regards,
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