Text Entry: _setText

Text Entry: _setText

Assigns text to a text entry field

Syntax
Details
Examples

Syntax

CALL NOTIFY (text-field-name, '_setText', text-value);

Argument Type Description

text-value
C specifies the value to assign to the text entry field

Argument	Type	Description
text-value	C	specifies the value to assign to the text entry field

Details

_setText is inherited from Widget. Character-based fields include the numeric types NUMLST and FIXEDLST, which can contain strings of numbers.

Examples

This example assigns the text 25.5 45 82 to the field TEXT1, which is a field with the type NUMLST.
```
call notify ('text1','_set_text_','25.5 45
             82');
```
This example assigns the text jelly rolls to COLORNUM, a field with the type CHAR.
```
 call notify ('text2','_set_text_','jelly
                rolls');
```

You can also use simple SCL assignment statements to set text values.

   text1 = 'my text';
   text2 = mystr;

However, remember that SCL statements and functions do not work across FRAME entry boundaries. So, if you need to set text values between two or more FRAME entries, use the _setText method instead.

See _getText in this class for warnings about potential programming errors that also apply to this method.

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