QUESTION: Server Side Xbasic to Launch a Dialog on a Mobile Applicaiton

[ttang]

Good Morning,

I've been doing some server side Xbasic programming for simple SQL Lookup.
The program works fine and does exactly it needs to do, except the last line. Which is just
an open dialog function. It works on the Code Editor when I run it, but when I test it
in the mobile application Working Preview it fails to load the messasge box. I'm using:

ui_msg_box("User Found","Look up worked!",UI_ATTENTION_SYMBOL)

Is there a better function that I should be calling to make sure I get a pop up window
on the mobilized client side when running the XBasic code server side?
Or am I just totally missing something?

Thanks,

Tony

[Steve Workings]

Re: QUESTION: Server Side Xbasic to Launch a Dialog on a Mobile Applicaiton

All the ui_ functions are desktop only functions. They are not for web applications.

Instead, a very simple javscript alert() will do, but I'll encourage you go also get familiar with the much nicer A5.msgBox.show()

[ttang]

Re: QUESTION: Server Side Xbasic to Launch a Dialog on a Mobile Applicaiton

Thank you Steve for the quick reply, I will definitely give it a try. I think I had originally used javascript alerts. But I'll play around the with msgbox. I think originally the alert message didn't come up..I could have had some syntax Issues..I'll post them what I wrote here.

[ttang]

Re: QUESTION: Server Side Xbasic to Launch a Dialog on a Mobile Applicaiton

hey Steve,

Here is my follow up...it looks like I'm still confusing my Xbasic and my Javascript references. As I'm still very green to Alpha, I'm sure I'm going to be muddling through a bit, but with such a nice community and a load of videos, tutorials etc it can be overwhelming.

I'm currently creating a small mobilized app, and I have simple button on a panel card. On the Click Event I have put this entire bit under the XBASIC dialog button:

-------------beginning of snippet---------------------
dim XAConnectionObject as sql::Connection
dim args as sql::Arguments
dim XAResultSet as sql::ResultSet
dim XACountSet as sql::ResultSet
dim XASQL as C
dim XACountSQL as C
dim XAHint as C
dim XAUserCountString as C
dim XAUserSubmittedData as C
dim XALive as C = "FALSE"


if XALive == "TRUE" then
debug(1)
XAUserSubmittedData=e.dataSubmitted.RecoverUserName
else
'Dummy Data For Testing
debug(1)
XAUserSubmittedData="[email protected]"
end if

XAConnectionObject.Open("::Name::XA_REPAIR")
args.add("userfilter",XAUserSubmittedData)
XASQL="select * from websecurityusers where Userid=:userfilter"
XACountSQL="select count(*) from websecurityusers where Userid=:userfilter"
XAConnectionObject.Execute(XACountSQL,args)
XACountSet=XAConnectionObject.ResultSet
XAUserCountString=XACountSet.ToString()

e.javascript = "alert('hello');"
a5_run_javascript("alert('hello');")

----------------------end of snippet---------------------

Everything on the Xbasic side is working as intended. But Once I get to using the javascript portions it turns into a hot steamy mess of confusion for me. Indeed the e argument is being passed into the function. Am I missing something more obvious? Am I putting this Xbasic in the wrong place? Should I put it in the Code section of the UX Component or is putting it on the Click Event in the Button okay? I read through your post that you had written previously for something very similar, but I'm still not getting the functionality of the simple alert.

[pettechservices]

Re: QUESTION: Server Side Xbasic to Launch a Dialog on a Mobile Applicaiton

Hi Tony,

I would think putting it in the click event is fine if everything is working but the javascript.

What I would do is basically return the javascript as a return value of the function. Example:

Function MyFunctionName as C (e as p)

'Do some Xbasic here

MyFunctionName = "alert('hello there');"
END FUNCTION

See if that works for you.. set the name of the function to the javascript you want to execute. There are probably other ways but this is a start for you. Welcome by the way!

[ttang]

Re: QUESTION: Server Side Xbasic to Launch a Dialog on a Mobile Applicaiton

Thank you so much for the nudge in the right direction.