Tap "cancel" on an input dialog

[tsolignani]

Good evening everyone.

Sometimes I tap cancel by mistake and lose the text I was entering or the thing I was doing.

Is there a way to ask for a confirmation when the user press cancel on an input dialog?

I suppose the text that was into the dialog box does not populate the value variable, is there a way to retrieve it?

Thank you.

[Micky Micky]

Hello

Cancel seems to lose the input.
You can create a confirmation dialog for the cancel button but the input is still lost.

Hopefully someone might have a workaround.

Good luck

Micky

[tsolignani]

Thank you.

That's the matter, no point in doing a confirmation dialog if the input is lost anyway.

Let's see if someone else has something to say.

Thank you.

[Micky Micky]

Hello

It's possible.

UI EVENT trigger can watch for Input Dialog WINDOW OPENED. This enables another flow with UI EVENT trigger watching for TEXT CHANGED.

I set it to watch for 1234 being typed and it triggered and returned a variable containing 1234.
This could be written to a text file until you press OK on your Input Dialog.

What I don't know is the Regex or Glob pattern to get it to watch for the whole keyboard.

I don't have time to show you a working example, but here's the bit watching for the 1234. The variable returned is called 'text'

http://automagic4android.com/flow.php?i ... ae536dabb9

Hope this helps

Micky

[Rafi4]

Hi tsolignani
Action input dialog default value as global_a
Action script as example global_a = value;
Condition confirmation dialog as in screen shot

I hope I have explained better

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[Desmanto]

It can be done by using Control UI. Put a control UI parallel to the input dialog (so both get executed at the same time). Both input dialog and control UI connected to previous same element.

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sleep(1000);
while(existsElementById("android:id/alertTitle"))
{
  savedtext = getTextById("ch.gridvision.ppam.androidautomagic:id/edit_text");
  sleep(1000);
}

This CUI script will loop every second and save the text in the input field to the [savedtext} variable. If you accidentally press cancel, you can still use {savedtext} as the output result. Check it using script after the input dialog. The Control UI ends there, not connected to any other element after it.

[tsolignani]

Thank you everybody.

I guess Desmanto solution did the trick.

It works, I put a block with that code and if cancel gets hit by mistake its content get copied to the clipboard.

You could imagine even stricter solutions, like writing the variable to a file maybe, so that you are safe even when the phone crash or does otherwise.

Thanks again, wonderful app and wonderful forum!