input popup possible?

vt_hokie2008

I would like to have my script start by giving the person running the script a popup asking for things like username and password, then pass those answers back into the script to be variables. Is this possible in Sahi?

dasspunk

I guess you could use a javascript prompt()...

var $name=prompt("Please enter your name","John Smith");
document.write("Hello " + $name);

Theeran

Hi dasspunk,

why to use javascript prompt(),Sahi has it own API _prompt to perform such functionalities.you can use the following script to get popup for username and password and use it as variables into script.

var $a=_prompt("Enter the username");
var $b=_prompt("Enter the password");
_alert("The username is"+$a);
_alert("The password is"+$b);

This might help you.

Regards
Theeran.

vt_hokie2008

Theeran wrote:

Hi dasspunk,

why to use javascript prompt(),Sahi has it own API _prompt to perform such functionalities.you can use the following script to get popup for username and password and use it as variables into script.

var $a=_prompt("Enter the username");
var $b=_prompt("Enter the password");
_alert("The username is"+$a);
_alert("The password is"+$b);

This might help you.

Regards
Theeran.

Thanks! Only problem here is a & b are returned as null.

vt_hokie2008

Here's what I came up with that works pretty well so far

$usernamePhrase="Enter a username";
$passwordPhrase="Enter a password";
<browser>
function promptForUserInput($phrase){
    promptValue = _prompt($phrase);
}
</browser>
function getUserInput($phrase){
    var $value = null; 
    _call(promptForUserInput($phrase));
    _set($value, promptValue);
    return $value;
}
var $username = getUserInput($usernamePhrase);
var $password = getUserInput($passwordPhrase);

vt_hokie2008

One question left though: how can I change the default text that appears in the prompt textbox? It shows "undefined" in the text box and _prompt($phrase, "text"); doesn't do it