TextBoxControl

To compute the length of the selection, use:

var sel = textBox.getSelection();
alert("Text selection length is: " + sel.end - sel.start);

In Xml, writing:

<j:TextBox change="alert('hello');"/>

creates a change event handler on the button. Whenever the user edits the text in any way, an alert pops up saying 'hello'.

In JavaScript, you write:

// create a click function
function myChange() { alert('Hello'); }

// create a text box
var tb = new TextBoxControl();

// register myChange as an event handler for the textbox
tb.addEventHandler(ID_change, new Delegate(tb, myChange));

If ID_isMultiLine is set to true, TextBox renders as a <textarea> control.

By default, TextBox renders as either an <inputtype="text"> or <inputtype="password"> control, depending on the value of TextBoxControl.ID_isPassword.

In Xml, writing:

<j:TextBox updated="alert('hello');"/>

creates an updated event handler on the button. When the user edits the text and then hits enter, the alert pops up saying 'hello'.

Specifies when the textbox updates its ID_text property (causing changes to propagate to anything bound to that property).

If ID_updateMode is ID_enter (the default), the ID_text property is only updated when the user hits ENTER or when the keyboard focus leaves the control.

If ID_updateMode is ID_everyKeyStroke, every time the user types in the text box the ID_text property is updated to reflect the new value.

If ID_updateMode is ID_explicit, the application must explicitly call TextBoxControl.update() to update the ID_text property.

In all three cases, the ID_text property will not be updated if the current value in the textbox fails to validate.

This gets the current raw text value in the control and performs any necessary validation. A side effect of calling this method is that ID_isInvalid and ID_validationErrorMessage are updated.

This method does not update ID_text - use TextBoxControl.update() for that.