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Hello, all.

Editorial1.1 is very interesting...

I do not know how to retrieve the contents of the character of the 'TextField'.

Could you tell me, please?

I have been playing around with TextField and I believe you are looking for the text attribute of a TextField.

For example:

import ui
text_field = ui.TextField()
the_text = text_field.text

In this example the value of the_text should be None, but in the UI it will be whatever you type into it.

Hope this helps you out :)

I briefly poked around too, and I am not sure but believe you may need to set up a delegate to save the text attribute of the TextField to a variable once the TextField is finished editing - if you want to use that text for some other later purpose.

@pruppert TextField also has an action that gets called when you finish editing, this is often easier to set up than a delegate.

Ah, thanks. I should have poked around a little more to see that.

@blmacbeth, Thanks!

A character is not displayed although it was performed as follows.
Where is wrong?

'TextField' of UI , already,the character has been entered.
ex. 'This is a text'

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import ui
import console

def button_tapped(sender):
    # sender.title = 'Hello'
    text_field= ui.TextField()
    text = text_field.text
    print text ## don't display 'This is a text'

ui.load_view().present('sheet')

@pruppert, Thanks!

I cannot understand the thing of 'delegate' well.
rather than -- it is weak. (^^;;;
I would like to learn anew.

@beer2011 You're creating a new TextField in the action that is never actually on screen.

If you have an existing text field in your UI, you can refer to it like this:

import ui

def button_tapped(sender):
    text_field = sender.superview['textfield1'] # assuming textfield1 is the name of your text field
    print text_field.text

ui.load_view().present('sheet')

The way this works is that you get the superview ("parent") of the button (sender) and from that, get a child view named "textfield1" (assuming that the button and the text field are in the same container, which is probably the case).

@omz, Thanks!

It was able to do well.

It seems that I was doing that it was completely different. (- -;;

And update of Pythonista is also carried out to expectation.