Help with visualisation - text field input

[shrimper]

Hi,

I would like to put a text field in my visualisation, where user can put some data (string or int). Then, after clicking a button, this data would be saved into MAIN(PRG) variable.

It seems that "Text field" is capable of only displaying text and variables. After I login and run program, placeholder %s disappears and variable from "Text variable" is displayed - but user cannot modify it.

I would like to give the user opportunity to edit content of this Text field by clicking on it and typing data from the keyboard.

I use TwinCAT 3 in Visual Studio 2013 Shell. There appears to be no alternative to "Text field" - maybe I miss some libraries? How do I add them?

Please answer

Regards,
shrimper

 

[Mara]

You just have to set your input configuration. Just go to your element property and set your input configuration for example to "one mouse click", then choose "Write a variable" and so on...

 

[shrimper]

Thank you, it worked like a charm. I thought "write variable" just saves some predefined value into a variable, and was so sure about it that I never checked it out

Another curious thing is that after I click any button, the text I wrote a moment ago just disappears, although nothing in my code is capable of reseting it...

 

[shooter]

assoon as you entered the text, you will need to save it, as the program will keep running, it will overwrite what you typed.

 

[shrimper]

Thanks, I will try tommorow