Text box

[mackus]

John,

created a group of controls on a background to use as a dialogbox. one of the controls is the iOS native text control. Everything works as it should except when is set the visible of the created dialog box and all its associated controls to false, the group is not longer visible except for the iOS native text control. The control is part of the entire group so i would assume it should disappear as well. Realizing I now have a group within a group, i can use the message box and set the visible of grp "dialogGroupInputBox", which is the mobGUI control, to false and it will disappear. I just cant programmatically get it to disappear when its wrapper group go invisible. Any thoughts

thx
mark

[Dixie]

Mackus...

These iOS native controls layer, or float above the stack, when you create them... so you will have to show or hide your UITextfield control with a line of script, something like ...

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   iphoneControlSet inputID, "visible", "true"

When you show or hide your group within which it is contained..

be well

Dixie

[splash21]

Hi, Mackus - Dixie is spot on with his advice

The native text field is only represented in the IDE with a LiveCode control, which can be grouped just like any other LC control.
In reality, the real native control is only created at runtime and can not be contained inside a LiveCode group.


HTH


John

[mackus]

thx Dixie and John,

that is how i have it working now but thought i was missing something. Guess I new the iOS control was created at runtime but didnt register in me wee little brain.

cheers
Mackus