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How to pass string from input field using "OnSubmit (String)"
I'm using the new GUI system in the 4.6 Beta.
I've added a InputField UI element. I want to pass the string that is typed in the input field to the function I have created below. I've dragged the Gameobject containing the component with said function onto the On Submit (String) event, selected the public function below. The string isn't getting passed, also , the function isn't even being called.
Any Ideas?
public void SetClientAppName (string name){
Debug.Log("Called : " + name );
clientAppName = name;
RestartSyphon ();
}
I've also tried to just calling this...
public void SetClientAppName (){
Debug.Log("SetClientAppName Called" );
}
Without the string parameter, and it's still not getting called when text is entered.
For anyone having this problem in the future.
On the InputField component, there is a checkbox for "Multi Line". Every time I pressed enter to submit text I was of course just starting a new line.
What this didn't solve is how to pass the string entered in the checkbox to my SetClientAppName function. I still haven't found a way to do this using OnSubmit (string) as this just passes whatever string is entered into the textbox to the right of the drop down to choose the function.
Instead I created a public input field and listener like so. Remember to include the "using UnityEngine.UI" header.
public InputField newClientName;
void Awake (){
newClientName.onSubmit.AddListener((value) => SetClientAppName(value));
}
public void SetClientAppName (string name){
Debug.Log("Called : " + name );
clientAppName = name;
RestartSyphon ();
}
Thanks for the code! I was browsing so many useless threads and video tutorials and none showed how to simply send the value, like you did in your Awake().
You can have the parameter of the function be a UI.Text component, and then add the reference of the same Text object as the value of the parameter your passing in.
public void UpdatedTextBox(UnityEngine.UI.Text newValue)
{
Debug.Log("Text was updated to: " + newValue.text);
}
As you already noticed, hitting Enter just creates a newline when the text is set to Multiline; according to threads on the forum, in the next version they added a selection for how to handle Enter.
As for the text being submitted, make sure to select function in top section "Dynamic string" and not bottom section "Static Parameters". I had the same issue at first and it took me a while to figure out; apparently you can use either dynamic or static string parameters and I had selected the function in static.
