PS 21.2.0 Window object - edittext noecho does not return value

[todork70834859]

Hi all,

I'm using the "new Window("dialog");" to create a small form with username and password as a dialog. Untill recently everything was OK, but now one of the fields have stopped returning value.

        var login = group1.add('edittext {properties: {name: "login"}}');
        login.helpTip = "Username for access";
        login.preferredSize.width = 250;

        var passwd = group2.add('edittext {properties: {name: "passwd", noecho: "true"}}');
        passwd.preferredSize.width = 250;

        myWindow = dialog.show();

        if (myWindow == true){
            alert(login.text);
            alert(passwd.text);
        }

The first alert works as expected, the scond one always returns empty value (nothing in the alert).

Can you help me with this?

[JJMack]

If you post your script most likly someone will.  With what you posted one need to imangine how you may have coded the dialog and script code.  If it had been working  was it broken by update 21.2 or did you make changes to the script or change your testing steps. It there button in the dialog that can cause a show 1 return code when the user has not set the name and password

[todork70834859]

// DIALOG
        // ======
        var dialog = new Window("dialog");
        dialog.text = "Login";
        dialog.orientation = "column";
        dialog.alignChildren = ["center", "top"];
        dialog.spacing = 10;
        dialog.margins = 16;

        // GROUP1
        // ======
        var group1 = dialog.add("group", undefined, {
            name: "group1"
        });
        group1.orientation = "row";
        group1.alignChildren = ["left", "center"];
        group1.spacing = 10;
        group1.margins = 0;

        var statictext1 = group1.add("statictext", undefined, undefined, {
            name: "statictext1"
        });
        statictext1.text = "Username";
        statictext1.preferredSize.width = 150;

        var login = group1.add('edittext {properties: {name: "login"}}');
        login.helpTip = "Username for access";
        login.preferredSize.width = 250;

        // GROUP2
        // ======
        var group2 = dialog.add("group", undefined, {
            name: "group2"
        });
        group2.orientation = "row";
        group2.alignChildren = ["left", "center"];
        group2.spacing = 10;
        group2.margins = 0;

        var statictext2 = group2.add("statictext", undefined, undefined, {
            name: "statictext2"
        });
        statictext2.text = "Password";
        statictext2.preferredSize.width = 150;

        var passwd = group2.add('edittext {properties: {name: "passwd", noecho: "true"}}');
        passwd.preferredSize.width = 250;

        // GROUP3
        // ======
        var group3 = dialog.add("group", undefined, {
            name: "group3"
        });
        group3.orientation = "row";
        group3.alignChildren = ["left", "center"];
        group3.spacing = 10;
        group3.margins = 0;

        var okBtn = group3.add("button", undefined, undefined, {
            name: "okBtn"
        });
        okBtn.text = "OK";

        var cancelBtn = group3.add("button", undefined, undefined, {
            name: "cancelBtn"
        });
        cancelBtn.text = "Cancel";
        myWindow = dialog.show();

        if (myWindow == true){
            alert(login.text);
            alert(passwd.text);
        }

This is the section with the Window. The alerts on the end should display the data entered in Username and Password fields - the data for "login" is hown, but for the "passwd" is not.

[JJMack]

On my 21.2 it work if  enter data in both fields before an enter or OK click. Esc and Alt+F4 cancel.  However Ctrl+Break Acts like Enter and OK that could be a bug in 21.2. I'll test other version of PS.

[JJMack]

It looks like the Ctrl+Break problem was introduced some time after CC2014.  Adobe replaced their ScriptUI implemented   with a new version in CC 2015 moved from a flash base to and html based implementation.  There ares some compatibility issues between versions.  The Ctrl+Brake issue was mostly likely introduced in CC 2015 ScriptUI.   I no longer have CC 2015, CC 2015.5 and CC 2017 installed.

CS3, CS6, and CC 2014 do not have the Ctrl+Brake issue.  

[Kukurykus]

Using with script Ctrl & Break in:

- ESTK CC results as a warning the text can't be copied

- CS6 Extended results as End-of-Text character (ETX)