NewB Question -> How to obtain text from Text Edit

[mikedeklerk]

Hi All,

I am very new to Symbian C++ programming in Carbide.C++ and I am trying to get the principles and concepts.

I have a project with uiDesigner. I have inserted a globalnote and an optionsmenu. And I have dragged a Text Editor into my designform.

In a file called FirstContainer.cpp (my app its name is "First") I have seen that the control is initialized with this code:

oid CFirstContainer::InitializeControlsL()
	{
	iEdit1 = new ( ELeave ) CEikEdwin;
	iEdit1->SetContainerWindowL( *this );
		{
		TResourceReader reader;
		iEikonEnv->CreateResourceReaderLC( reader, R_FIRST_CONTAINER_EDIT1 );
		iEdit1->ConstructFromResourceL( reader );
		CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(); // reader internal state
		}
		{
		HBufC* text = StringLoader::LoadLC( R_FIRST_CONTAINER_EDIT1_2 );
		iEdit1->SetTextL( text );
		CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy( text );
		}
	iEdit1->SetObserver( this );
	AddControlEventHandlerL( 
			iEdit1, 
			EEventStateChanged, 
			&CFirstContainer::HandleEdit1StateChangedL );
	
	iEdit1->SetFocus( ETrue );
	iFocusControl = iEdit1;
	
	}

When I select the event of an option menu the code for to handle the selection is added to FirstContainerView.cpp (see code below):

TBool CFirstContainerView::HandleDoNowMenuItemSelectedL( TInt aCommand )
	{
	// TODO: implement selected event handler
	
	_LIT(MyString, "SomeTextHereFucker");
	CFirstContainerView::RunGlobalNote1L(&MyString);
	
	
	return ETrue;
	}

I have seen in FirstContainer.cpp that I can use iEdit1->GetText(); but I can not use this in FirstContainerView.cpp

Anyway... What I am trying to do is getting the text from the Text Edit control and displaying it with a global note. So I need to obtain the pointer of the text in the Edit Control.

I have no idea actually where to continue from this.
Could some please give me some hints/help/code ?

Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for replying!

[symbianyucca]

one way to figure things out is to check SDK help documentation on the API you are using, Editors in general are quite well documented, so you should find the functions implemented for the class from there.

[wizard_hu_]

My guess would be that CFirstContainerView contains a pointer to a CFirstContainer, created and deleted in DoActivateL and DoDeactivate.
So you can access iEdit via that pointer (perhaps iControl or something like that). I do not know the behavior of the Carbide UI designer, but it may have already created public methods for accessing the editor from outside, check if it is true and/or make iEdit1 public (if it is not public by default).

EDIT: Jukka: the question is more related to the Avkon View architecture (where the controls are owned by the container object, while commands are handled by the view object) than the editors themselves - at least as I see.

[mikedeklerk]

After Edit:
Edit:
I have found this in FirstContainerView.cpp:
"iFirstContainer->CFirstContainer()->iEdit1->GetText();"
When I choose GetText(); I can see that its parameter looks like this:
"GetText(TDes & aDes) void". What kind of variable I have to use there and how to initialize it?

Before Edit:
I guess this is the code you meant?
When I type this "iFirstContainer->" (below the code shown below) I get a list. In this list I can find EEdit1 like "iFirstContainer->EEdit1". But this is also there when I have deleted the edit textbox in the UI designer of carbidee.C++ . So I guess it is has nothing to do with that. I can acces CFirstContainer:: in CFirstContainerView. But the iEdit1->GetText is not there. How should I access that iEdit1 in FirstContainerView from FirstContainer?

Thanks for helping!

void CFirstContainerView::DoActivateL( 
		const TVwsViewId& /*aPrevViewId*/,
		TUid /*aCustomMessageId*/,
		const TDesC8& /*aCustomMessage*/ )
	{
	// [[[ begin generated region: do not modify [Generated Contents]
	SetupStatusPaneL();
	
				
	if ( iFirstContainer == NULL )
		{
		iFirstContainer = CreateContainerL();
		iFirstContainer->SetMopParent( this );
		AppUi()->AddToStackL( *this, iFirstContainer );
		} 
	// ]]] end generated region [Generated Contents]
	
	}

[Kavit Patel]

Hi Mike,

You can use follow:

TBuf<50> iText;

iFirstContainer->CFirstContainer()->iEdit1->GetText(iText);


After this you will have text in the editor into iText variable.
That you can use in your note.

Regards,
Kavit.

[mikedeklerk]

Thanks for answering my question. So with using TBuf<50> I make a variable with the size for 50 bytes?

When I copy exactly what you have typed:

TBuf<50> iText;

iFirstContainer->CFirstContainer()->iEdit1->GetText(iText);

I get an error saying "illegal use of type-name";

What does that mean? I changed the variable name but that gave the same error so that can not be the case.

Edit:
When I try "iFirstContainer->iEdit1->GetText(iText);" I get an error saying: "illegal access from 'CFirstContainer' to protected/private member 'CFirstContainer::iEdit1'"

thanks again,

[Kavit Patel]

Hi Mike,

But why you want to access Text editor in Container from View ?

You can have access it from Container.

Or you can call some of container's method from view.

For example.

from view you can access some public method that returns the TDes.

void CMyContainer::SomePublicMethod(const TDesC& iText)
{
iEdit1->GetText(iText);
}

and in view ...
TBuf <50> iTex;
iContainer->SomePublicMethod(&iTex);


Regards,
Kavit.

[mikedeklerk]

I was thinking about making a function in container that could return me the text from the textbox in view. When I want to make that function as you suggested it says "unidentified identifier 'SomePublicMethod'"

void CFirstContainer::SomePublicMethod(const TDesC& iText)
{
	iEdit1->GetText(iText);
}

Thanks again for helping a nagging noob.

[wizard_hu_]

"const TDesC &iText" does not seem to be an ideal target for GetText, nor an ideal name for an argument, so try "TDes &aText".
Otherwise you may want to learn C++, where we also declare methods in .h files prior to defining them in the .cpp ones.