[Ninjatogo]

Hi guys and girls,
I'm building another test app using Cascades and ran into a wall.
Basically I've got a multi tab interface, and each tab has a few text areas in it.
I want to make reference to the text areas so that when a button on one tab is pushed it will copy+paste the text from another text area on another tab. Is this possible using Cascades? If so, can someone please explain how to do it?

[developit]

There is probably a reference to the cascades DOM (or whatever they are calling it) hanging off the global object. If you can't figure out how to access the global object, perhaps this classic "Hack" will work for you:

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/...L/td-p/1906669

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[Guignards]

Hey, how is this going?
did you get any further using developit's tip?

what text are you wanting to copy?
like a multi page submission form?
tab1.textbox = name, DoB, etc..
tab2. lable = name and DoB from tab 1
is my understanding correct?

[superdirt]

Yes it is possible as long as you aren't deleting your Tab objects after you move to another tab (I don't know why you would do that). Perhaps the easiest way is to connect a signal from some object to your qml holding the text fields and pass around the text.

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[Ninjatogo]

Sorry for the extremely late reply everyone (a bit busy with school),
I have returned to my app to continue development, but I'm taking a slightly different approach. This time I'm using multiple sheets instead of tabs. I'm also trying to use signals to push the content of my textboxes around the multiple pages. After studying the cascades cookbook from Blackberry, I'm able to use signals to save strings to my first page from my second or third page, but that is after hitting the save button.

My problem is trying to get a signal emitted when the app is started, emitting the current contents of the textboxes. My method is

signal open(string testtext, string testtext2)
onCreationCompleted: { main.open(inn.text, outt.text) }

on page 2 I had a reference to the signal, so if there is text in signal testtext, on creation that would be copied to a textbox on page 2. However, typing that would give me an unknown symbol error in the SDK, and the app refused to load at all in the simulator.

[Ninjatogo]

Quick update,
since my last post I've completely rewrote the app, sorted the problem and much more.
All thanks to caffeine and dedication (and superdirt and developit's posts ).