I keep trying to make programs that involve the UI module. But every time I use the UI module, I always end up needing to access what the user inputted in a TextField or TextView. I can't figure out how to do this.
Here is some of my code.
import ui
def savefile():
text1 = ui.TextField("textfield1").text
text2 = ui.TextView("textview1").text
file = open(text1,"a")
file.write(text2)
file.close()
Use square brackets instead of parentheses...
text1 = ui.TextField["textfield1"].text
text2 = ui.TextView["textview1"].text
ui.TextField() creates a completely new instance of a TextField. so there is nothing there yet! if you want the user to type something, you need to present a view first.
Presumably you have already created a textview, and presented it. your options are to save a reference to the field/textview, say as a global, or instance property of a custom class, or else give it a name parameter, and search the main view using rootview[’textview1'] where rootview is the variable for the parent view, and textfield1 is the default name for a textfield, assuming you only have one.
Thank you for your help.