Cascades Development

[simon_hain]

I have a textfield defined:

TextField {
  id: passwordField
   text: password
   hintText: qsTr("Password") + Retranslate.onLanguageChanged
   inputMode: TextFieldInputMode.Password
}

password is a property defined above, to allow access to the text from outside:

property string password

 i want to save the password on click on a button, and check for empty values:

if ("" != passwordField.text) {
  //call save in c++
  saveToast.show()
} else {
  console.log("passwordField.text" + passwordField.text)
}

The field shows the correct value, a number of '*' equal to the password set, but the save check is always wrong and on the console the output is empty:

Debug: passwordField.text

I can enter any text i want in the field, the text attribute seems to be always empty.

[peter9477 · Accepted solution]

Well, given the conditional, you're only executing that when it thinks it's empty, so you should not expect to see anything but "passwordField.text" in the console.

Why it is empty, that's another question altogether... You appear to have forced the text always to be the value of the "password" property. I think what you really wanted is to define that property as "property alias password: passwordField.text". At that point, I expect things would work.

[simon_hain]

Thanks, the alias property is indeed what i wanted to do.

for future reference, here is the documentation:
http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt/propertybinding.html

[ekke]

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simon_hain wrote:...

i want to save the password on click on a button, and check for empty values:

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BTW: yxou can also use the Cascades Credentials Dialog where you can only go on if password isn't empty

[simon_hain]

i am displaying a list of configured usernames/passwords in a dynamically created qml component.
i'll use the credentials dialog later, for example on a http 401.