Reading text

In this recipe, you will learn how to read text that is present on the mobile device such as data entered by the user.

How to do it...

Follow this recipe's steps to read text from the mobile device's screen:

1. Create a new main stack in LiveCode.

2. Add a label field to the card with the following properties:

   • Name: userInput

   • Width: 300

   • foregroundColor: Black

   • Align text left

3. Add a button to the card with the following properties:

   • Name: btnRead

   • Label: Read Text

   • foregroundColor: Black

   • backgroundColor: White

   • borderWidth: 0

4. Add the following code to the btnRead button:

   on mouseUp
     answer the text of fld "userInput" with "Correct" \
   and "Incorrect" titled "I Read Your Text"
   end mouseUp

5. Run the app in the mobile simulator. Enter Hunger is easily solved with food. in the input text field. Your results should match what is displayed in the following screenshot:

   

How it works...

In this recipe, we read the text entered by the user as part of the answer command using the statement the text of fld.

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