Update label text

[Max1]

Hello,

I would like to know how to fill a label text by pressing a button.

Example. User presses button1 and label1 is updated with Text="button clicked"

I've tried setting the button onselect to: [code] label1.text="button clicked" [/code] but nothing happened.

Any ideas?

Thanks 🙂

ps. how do you post code in this forum? [code][/code] doesnt seem to work!

[NEPatton]

Have you tried using a variable or context?

So for instance...

Set your Button's OnSelect to:  Set(myVar,"Hey man!")

Set your Label's Text to: myVar

Now, everytime myVar is updated, the label text will change.

P.S. - to post code, use the button up above! (at least that's how I produced the following):

Set(myVar,"Hey man!")

[Max1]

This was my first thought but i wondered if there was a simpler way to directly update the field?

Not sure how i 

missed

that!

[NEPatton · Accepted solution]

I'm afraid not -- you can't set the text property of a label as part of an action.

If you stick with a decent naming convention, this isn't really all that hard to keep up with.

E.g. For all labels, set .text property = <label_name>_text

EDIT:  pulling information from other posts to make the solution more relevant:  buttons or other controls that change the label text would then need to call a function like:  Set(<label_name>_text,"my new label text")