How can I get a text from textinput only knowing the id?

[sanctus2099]

Okay... so I have the id of a gadget in a int
Is there a way to get a pointer to a gadget by the id or anyother way to find out what is in the textinput just by knowing the id?

[shogun]

Okay... so I have the id of a gadget in a int
Is there a way to get a pointer to a gadget by the id or anyother way to find out what is in the textinput just by knowing the id?

((gui::IGUIEditBox*)getElementFromId(YOUR_ID, true))->getText();

getRootGUIElement() also may be of interest for you, if you don't have a IGUIWindow where your Editbox is placed. Just search the docs.

[sanctus2099]

Thx dude...

[sanctus2099]

Okay... I didn't test it back then but I tought it would work(had some other problems).
THe things is that it doesn work... somehow there is no function like getelementfromid. I'd love if the docs would have a search

[shogun]

Yes, there is such a function.

You can use Google, can't you?

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/cl ... nt.html#a6

[sanctus2099]

Thx... It works now.
Any ideea how to transform a whcar_t array to a string? I need to send it trough network.

[JP]

search the forum as this has be answered lots, or look at core::stringw

[Acki]

right, always search the forum first !!!

well, just in case you're to dump to do a search
try this thread: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... rt+convert

but seriously, please search the forums before asking, it usualy will save a lot of time for all of us !!!

[sanctus2099]

Okay... my bad... I did look a litle into the search but didn't find exactly what I wanted... its ok now... next problem...

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IGUIElement* elem;
		char temp[255];
		wcstombs(temp, elem->getElementFromId(nameid)->getText(), 255);

It does compile... but when it passes those lines it breaks and says something about it not beeing defined... could someone please recode that small thing? pls

[CuteAlien]

... but when it passes those lines it breaks and says something about it not beeing defined...

Always funny when people try to summarize error messages instead of just pasting them :-) That exact (and complete!) error message is the thing we need to help you ...

[JP]

my guess is getElementFromId is returning NULL..

Does getElementFromId only search the children of that element and seeing as elem has just been declared as a solitary element it won't find anything...

[Acki]

right, because IGUIElement* elem; is undefined garbage and you try to get an element from it...
so change

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elem->getElementFromId(nameid)->getText()

to

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guienv->getElementFromId(nameid)->getText()

or whatever your gui environment is defined in...

[sanctus2099]

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c:\SanctusOnline\IntfFunctions.cpp(21): error C2039: 'getElementFromId' : is not a member of 'irr::gui::IGUIEnvironment'
        c:\SanctusOnline\Irrlicht\IGUIEnvironment.h(55) : see declaration of 'irr::gui::IGUIEnvironment'

I allready tryed that. Is there a way to get the masterparent of all gui elements?

[Acki]

I allready tryed that. Is there a way to get the masterparent of all gui elements?

ohh, my fault, I just looked at your code and made a quick post...
but why you didn't simply look at the api, it's a realy magical file that tells you all about Irrlicht's elements and their functions !!!

so the code must (of course) be:

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guienv->getRootGUIElement()->getElementFromId(nameid)->getText()

[vitek]

You're forgetting that you need to tell the call to recursively traverse the element graph...

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gui::IGUIElement* found = gui->getRootElement()->getElementFromId(id, true);
if (found)
{
    const wchar_t* wstr = found->getText();
}

Travis