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How to get value from TextEditBoxWidget?

New Here ,
Mar 04, 2022 Mar 04, 2022

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I am always getting null value fro a widget that I created,

Widget values,

TextEditBoxWidget
    (
      kOTPDlgBoxWidgetID,                   // widget ID
      kSysEditBoxPMRsrcId,                       // PMRsrc ID
      kBindNone,                                 // frame binding
      Frame(95,10,320,30)                    // left, top, right, bottom
      kTrue,                                     // visible
      kTrue,                                     // enabled
      0,                                // nudgeWidgetId (0 if no nudge
      1.0,                                       // small nudge amount
      5.0,                                       // large nudge amount
      6,                                         // max num chars
      kFalse,                                     // read only flag
      kFalse,                        // should notify on each key stroke
      kTrue,                                   // range checking enabled
      kTrue,                                     // blank entry allowed
      30.0,                                      // upper limit
      0.0,                                       // lower limit
      "",                                        // control label
    ),

Observer:

#include "VCPlugInHeaders.h"
// Interface includes:
#include "IControlView.h"
#include "IPanelControlData.h"
#include "ISubject.h"
// General includes:
#include "CDialogObserver.h"
#include "VCPlugInHeaders.h"
#include "CAlert.h"
#include "PreferenceUtils.h"
#include "IAppPersistance.h"
#include "IAppPersistCmdData.h"
#include "IDropDownListController.h"
#include "IStringListControlData.h"
#include "ITextControlData.h"
// Project includes:
#include "IDToHttpID.h"
#include "IDToHtppUtilities.h"

class OTPDialogObserver : public CDialogObserver
{
public:
    OTPDialogObserver(IPMUnknown* boss) : CDialogObserver(boss) {
    }
    virtual ~OTPDialogObserver() {}
    virtual void AutoAttach();
    virtual void AutoDetach();
    virtual void Update(const ClassID& theChange, ISubject* theSubject, const PMIID &protocol, void* changedBy);
    virtual void AttachToWidget(const WidgetID& widgetId, const PMIID& iidOfDataToObserve);
    virtual void DetachFromWidget(const WidgetID &widgetId,const PMIID &iidOfDataObserver);
};
CREATE_PMINTERFACE(OTPDialogObserver, kOTPDialogObserverImpl)
void OTPDialogObserver::AutoAttach()
{
    CDialogObserver::AutoAttach();
    do
    {
        AttachToWidget(kOTPDlgBoxWidgetID,    IID_IBOOLEANCONTROLDATA);
        AttachToWidget(kOKButtonWidgetID,    IID_IBOOLEANCONTROLDATA);
        AttachToWidget(kCancelButton_WidgetID,    IID_IBOOLEANCONTROLDATA);
    } while (false);         
}
void OTPDialogObserver::AttachToWidget(const WidgetID& widgetId, const PMIID& iidOfDataToObserve)
{
    InterfacePtr<IPanelControlData> panelData(this, IID_IPANELCONTROLDATA);
    IControlView* view = panelData->FindWidget(widgetId);
    if (view) {
        InterfacePtr<ISubject> subject(view, IID_ISUBJECT);
        if (subject)
            subject->AttachObserver(this, iidOfDataToObserve);
    }
}
void OTPDialogObserver::AutoDetach()
{
    CDialogObserver::AutoDetach();
    do
    {
        DetachFromWidget(kOTPDlgBoxWidgetID,        IID_IBOOLEANCONTROLDATA);
        DetachFromWidget(kOKButtonWidgetID,        IID_IBOOLEANCONTROLDATA);
        DetachFromWidget(kCancelButton_WidgetID,    IID_IBOOLEANCONTROLDATA); 
    } while (false);               
}
void OTPDialogObserver::DetachFromWidget(const WidgetID &widgetId,const PMIID &iidOfDataObserver)
{
    InterfacePtr<IPanelControlData> iiPanelData(this,IID_IPANELCONTROLDATA);
    IControlView* iiView = iiPanelData->FindWidget(widgetId);
    if(iiView)
    {
        InterfacePtr<ISubject> iiSubject(iiView,IID_ISUBJECT);
        if (iiSubject)
        {
            iiSubject->DetachObserver(this,iidOfDataObserver);
        }
    }
}
/* Update*/
void OTPDialogObserver::Update
(
    const ClassID& theChange,
    ISubject* theSubject,
    const PMIID &protocol,
    void* changedBy
)
{
    CDialogObserver::Update(theChange, theSubject, protocol, changedBy);
    do
    {
        InterfacePtr<IControlView> controlView(theSubject, UseDefaultIID());
        if (controlView == nil)
        {
            ASSERT_FAIL("OTPDialogObserver::Update() controlView invalid");
            break;
        }
        // Get the button ID from the view.
        WidgetID theSelectedWidget = controlView->GetWidgetID();
        if (theSelectedWidget == kOKButtonWidgetID && theChange == kTrueStateMessage)
        { 
        }
    } while (false);
}

Thanks,

Robin

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Community Expert , Mar 07, 2022 Mar 07, 2022

This can be done many ways. I will list what I think and you can choose and investigate these methods

  • Save the value in a global variable, and then use it any of the files you want.
  • Create a class(probably a singleton) that can hold all such variables that you need across files. Since it will be a singleton class you can get its instance in any file and use the value.

Now some InDesign specific ways.

  • This one is similiar to creating the class but we do that by adding an interface and implemen
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Mar 04, 2022 Mar 04, 2022

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The kTextEditBoxWidgetBoss has an interface ITextControlData which has a method GetString

So query this interface inside your update method, when the widgetID is of the kTextEditBoxWidgetBoss and the call the method.

-Manan

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Tried this too....

 

void OktaQtnDialogObserver::Update
(
    const ClassID& theChange,
    ISubject* theSubject,
    const PMIID &protocol,
    void* changedBy
)
{
    if (theChange == kTrueStateMessage)
    {
    // Check for the widget id
    InterfacePtr<IControlView> view(this, UseDefaultIID());
    WidgetID widgetid = view->GetWidgetID();
    if (widgetid ==kOTPDlgBoxWidgetID)
        {
        InterfacePtr<IPanelControlData> panelControlData(this, UseDefaultIID());
        IControlView* EditTextBoxView = panelControlData->FindWidget(kOTPDlgBoxWidgetID);
        InterfacePtr<ITextControlData> EditBoxTextData(EditTextBoxView, UseDefaultIID());
        PMString temp;
        temp = EditBoxTextData->GetString();
        PMString returnText = temp;
        CAlert::InformationAlert(returnText);
        }
    }
}

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Hope I need to call "kOTPAuthDialogBoss" instead "kOTPDlgBoxWidgetID" am I right?

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Still getting null value...

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What do you mean by null value? Does the code reach CAlert at all, or some interface above it is null? The widget id is fine in the findwidget method. Look at WriteFishPrice sample plugin, that should have code interacting with texteditboxes.

-Manan

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A new popup will open based on soap response (if success), on that popup user will have to enter the password.

 

So I need to read the value that user entered in that popup window. But it's returns empty...

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That is fine. If that is the case a better place to put this code would have been inside the dialog controller, rather than the observer. Anyhow if you are not able to get it working, add the relevant bits of code to a sample plugin like Writefishprice and send that across, I can have a look at it. Just show the dialog on any event like the click of the about plugin menu etc and then we can have a look at your dialog.

-Manan

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Sure, I will do that & share it...

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I build the "Writefishprice", but it's menu shows disabled when I place this build inside plugin folder.

Am I miss anything?

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Hi Manan,

I can able to get the value from texteditbox if I use the get function within the controller. But I just realized my issue, I am trying to get vaule from one controller to another, not sure hot to to move the value from one controller to another.

On below snapshot, I am getting the value from "OktaSecQuestionController.cpp" & I need to pass this value to "AuthDialogController.cpp".

Screen Shot 2022-03-07 at 3.34.25 PM.png

I am struggling to find a solution for this from past one month... Hope you can help on this!

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This can be done many ways. I will list what I think and you can choose and investigate these methods

  • Save the value in a global variable, and then use it any of the files you want.
  • Create a class(probably a singleton) that can hold all such variables that you need across files. Since it will be a singleton class you can get its instance in any file and use the value.

Now some InDesign specific ways.

  • This one is similiar to creating the class but we do that by adding an interface and implementation to an InDesign class probably the document boss, session boss etc.
  • Use the blackbox data interface to save the value. I have not used it but it seems it allows us to save key value pair in different boss classes.
  • You could use the insertlabel method that we use in scripting from C++ and save the key value pair that way.

I hope these points give you ample amount of ideas to work upon your implementation.

-Manan

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Do we have any expamle in our SDK for any of this method? (Sorry I am new to this...)

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Used the global variable & it works!

Thanks a lot!

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Good that you got a version working. But I would highly encourage you to look at the interface/implementation add route I mentioned. This is very intrinsic to InDesign plugin development and you need to be comfortable with this. To start, read the programming guide shipped in the docs folder of the sdk, it nicely explains what it is, why it is and how to go about creating it.

-Manan

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Sure, I will look into it! Thanks for the support!

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