is "mobile" on card

[gepponline]

Hi!
I'm developing my first app for mobile...after a great sweating, now I can test my app on my mobile device.

The problem I have is that i need to create a native text input but it didn't appear, so i inserted an answer popup to debug if the opencard script was running but it seems not.

On my first card i have this code:

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on openCard
    if the environment is "mobile" then
      answer "mobile" 
      --crea Numero Filiera
      mobileControlCreate "input","numeroFilieraMob"
      put the rect of button "numero" into AndroNumeroFiliera
      mobileControlSet "numeroFilieraMob","rect", "130,116,354,168"
      mobileControlSet "numeroFilieraMob","keyboardtype","numeric"
   end if
end openCard

No answer pop up and no mobile control created.

So i copied the code to the stack

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on openStack
   set the text of field "numero" to empty
     if the environment is "mobile" then
      answer "mobile" 
      --crea Numero Filiera
      mobileControlCreate "input","numeroFilieraMob"
      put the rect of button "numero" into AndroNumeroFiliera
      mobileControlSet "numeroFilieraMob","rect", "130,116,354,168"
      mobileControlSet "numeroFilieraMob","keyboardtype","numeric"
   end if
end openStack

Now the answer popup appear but still NO input control on my app.
What's wrong with my code?

[Klaus]

Hi Geppo,

I think native controls are INVISIBLE per default,
so you also need to make the control visible after creating it!
...
mobileControlSet "numeroFilieraMob","keyboardtype","numeric"
mobileControlSet "numeroFilieraMob", "visible", true
...
And yes, that surely should go into the docs!


Best

Klaus

[gepponline]

thank you so much It seems to work!
I'll be back on next issue ghgh

[gepponline]

oh no..another important thing...
If i want to add 1 to the number in the mobilecontrol pressing a button
Is it correct to use

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 add 1 to the field "numeroFilieraMob"

or "numerofilieraMob" is not consider as a field?

[Klaus]

Hi Geppo,

1. the correct syntax to access LC controls is without THE:
...
## add 1 to the fld "xyz"
add 1 to fld "xyz"
...

2. No, you are right, a native text control is NOT a LC field and you need to access it in another way.
Basically you will need to:
...
put mobilecontrolget("numeroFilieraMob", "text") into tText
add 1 to tText
mobilecontrolset "numeroFilieraMob", "text", tText
## Not tested, but should work!
...

Best

Klaus

[gepponline]

that's what i've done..but it seems not to work..

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     if the environment is "mobile" then
         put mobileControlGet ("numeroFilieraMob", "text") into lNumero
         add 1 to lNumero
         mobileControlSet "numeroFilieraMob","text",lNumero
      else       
         add 1 to the field "numero"
      end if

[gepponline]

oh no!...forget about last issue..
maybe the problem was an "if" before

[gepponline]

Here is the new issue....
The mobile control is always visible even if I change card.

So...
Is it better to HIDE the control when i change card and SHOW it when re-Open his card or I have to close and recreate it?

[Klaus]

Yep, native controls "float" independently above the actual LC stack!
You can hide or delete it, its up to you

[Thunder]

Thanks. Lots of good information here...