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azimuth
Reel Rookie
6 years ago
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How to create/access a Label in a scene as a global variable? (Displaying messages with roInput)

I have a label in a scene, and I want to access it from main.brs.  I've tried assigning it to a global variable:     m.myLabel = m.top.findNode("myLabel")     m.global.myLabel = m.myLabel Tried th...
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    renojim
    6 years ago

    I think I know what you're trying to do, but I'm not sure.  To access a label in a scene from main.brs, you have to get to it via the scene:

    sg = createObject("roSGScreen")
scene = sg.createScene("myScene")
label = scene.findNode("myLabel")
    print label.text ' prints current value
    label.text = "New text"  ' set label text

    -JT

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renojim
Community Streaming Expert
6 years ago

I think I know what you're trying to do, but I'm not sure.  To access a label in a scene from main.brs, you have to get to it via the scene:

sg = createObject("roSGScreen")
scene = sg.createScene("myScene")
label = scene.findNode("myLabel")
print label.text ' prints current value
label.text = "New text"  ' set label text

-JT

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azimuth
Reel Rookie
6 years ago

Yes that was exactly what I was trying to do... thanks!