A question about the textpad-component in SAS/AF

[JacobSimonsen]

Hi everyone,

Building applications is still a bit new for me, so this question may seem stupid for experts in SAS/AF.

I have added a textpad-component in my frame. Then, in my scl-program I would like to have some control of the text that appears in the textpad, forexample:

rc=insertc(mytextpad.text,'This is the firstline',-1);

rc=insertc(mytextpad.text,'This is the second line',-1);

Why does the textpad not show these two lines? Do I need to call some function to get the textpad updated with the new entries?

I made some experience with using a text-entry component instead. here the text is autmatically updated, but this component can only contain one line.

Jacob

[BrunoMueller · Accepted solution]

Since you only change the SCL List contents the widget is not aware of any changes.

You can you the _refresh, or _needRefresh method, so that the widget redraws it s content.

Something like:

   rc = insertc(textPad.text, tempString, -1);

   textPad._needRefresh();