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--- text_field [2020/12/02 18:47] – justin
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 =====Scripting=====
-You can access and change certain properties of a text field from within a [[script]] by simply referencing the parent [[widget]] and the element by their unique IDs. See below for an example of changing the field's text. In this case, the [[widget]] has an ID of "test" and the text label has an ID of "0001".
+You can access and change certain properties of a text field from within a [[script]] by simply referencing the parent [[widget]] and the element by their unique IDs. See below for examples of both changing the field's text and storing the field's text into a variable. In this case, the [[widget]] has an ID of "test" and the text field has an ID of "0001".
-**Changing a button's text:**
+**Changing a field's text:**
 <code bauxite>
 widget["test"].element["0001"].text = "New Text"
+</code>
+**Storing a field's text into a variable:**
+<code bauxite>
+$name = widget["test"].element["0001"].text;
+display_message("Hello, " + $name + "!")
 </code>
 ~~NOTOC~~

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