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#1 · November 1, 2022, 4:45 am

I am new to this platform and looking for a suggestion on how to do a simple task.

I need a Text Box that has 2 buttons under it. One box is say 1 and the other is 2

When i click button 1 it will put "this is 1"under the last line in the box. If its the first line then its the top line then say i press button 2

It needs to say "this is 2" under what was the last line in the box

so the program will create this based on the buttons pressed?

example...

this is 1

this is 2

this is 1

this is 2

etc.

#2 · November 1, 2022, 8:37 pm

@no1g8tor96

1) For your "TextBox", choose a "Container" ... let us name it (i.e. give it an id of) "MessageContainer"

2) Here is your code for Button1 ...

SetVar "[thisButtonMessage]" "this message from Button1"

GetObjectHTML "MessageContainer" [containerHTML]
StrLen "[containerHTML]" [containerHTMLLen]
...AlertBox "containerHTML" "[containerHTMLLen]...[containerHTML]" ""

If [containerHTMLLen] <= 1
   ... this is first line in Container
   SetVar "[newLine]" ""
Else
   SetVar "[newLine]" "<br/>"
   ... for double spaced lines
   ...SetVar "[newLine]" "<br/><br/>"
EndIf

SetObjectHTML "MessageContainer" "[containerHTML][newLine][thisButtonMessage]"

For each of the other buttons, just change the first line of script to whatever you want.

Notes:

a) to check if this is the first line or not (which determines whether you need a new line element of "< br/ >" or not), I had to check the length of the stored HTML (apparently it stores a single blank character even when empty).

b) if you want the text lines to appear double spaced, just add an additional new line element of "< br/ >" to [newLine]

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