amber-examples/textinput/README.md

Amber Text Input Example

Shows how to work with a text field.

Getting Started

To bring project alive (for example after git clone):

npm install
bower install
grunt devel

Developing the project (after brought alive):

Start server with amber serve and go to http://localhost:4000/ in your browser and follow the instructions

How was this example constructed

mkdir textinput
amber init
amber serve

point browser to http://localhost:4000

Create a Widget class for the example

Widget subclass: #TextInputExample
instanceVariableNames: 'myInputField'
package: 'AmberTextInputExample'!

Add a renderOn: method to construct the GUI

renderOn: html
   myInputField := html input.
   html button
   with: 'Do something';
    onClick: [ self doSomething]

Implement an action method

doSomething

   myInputField inspect

And finally add the widget to the application class AmberTextInputExample

   doTextFieldExampleAppend

      TextInputExample new appendToJQuery: 'body' asJQuery

class this method from existing #augmentPage method

   augmentPage
'#amber-with' asJQuery click: [ self doAmberWith ].
'#jquery-append' asJQuery click: [ self doJQueryAppend ].
self doTextFieldExampleAppend