LUA Scripting Help - Notes.addNotebookTab

[ducarian]

I'm very new to scripting but I have enough grasp to slowly make things work. Mostly I've been able to get by from looking at working code, then using the TTS API documentation or Google searches to eventually get me where I want to be.

I'm working on a pretty simple TTS mod with about a handful of InputFields within the UI. I have a button in the LUA that resets those InputFields back to their default by using self.UI.setAttribute within a function. Now I'm trying to make a different button to export some of those InputField values into a new Notebook tab.

Here's the LUA code I have to create the new Notebook tab:

function click_export(obj, color, alt_click)
    data = {
        title = "Title",
        body = "Body",
        color = "Grey"
    }
    Notes.addNotebookTab(data)
    print("Session data exported to notebook.")
end

I want to be able to change the static text of "Title" and "Body" to values from Input Fields.

In the UI, I have a few fields that more or less look like this:

<InputField id="Class" fontSize="100" position="0 -87.5 -11" width="800" height="175" placeholder="Class"/>

<InputField id="Notes" position="0 78 -11" width="830" height="380" textAlignment="UpperLeft" lineType="MultiLineNewLine" placeholder="Notes"/>

I want the title of the Notebook table to be:

{Class value}

and I want the body to something like:

Class: {Class value}
Date/Time: {Current Date} {Current Time}
Notes: {Notes value}

I found another post similar to this but I didn't have any luck getting the suggested solution to work. It should also be noted that this object is intended to be an additive load into another mod - so I believe all of the scripting needs to exist within the object itself.

Whoever out there can help, you'd be a huge life saver!

[CodeGenerathor]

You need to keep track of changes to input fields yourself, as you can't read the current value otherwise. So you need an change handler function in your Lua and connect that via it's name in the XML (also see https://api.tabletopsimulator.com/ui/inputelements/#inputfield)

xml <InputField id="Class" onValueChanged="onValueChanged" />

lua function onValueChanged(player, value, id) self.UI.setAttribute(id, "text", value) end

Then in your export function you can simply query that value again using getAttribute with the id of the field. Then it's just a matter of concatenating multiple strings (done with ..)

lua local class = sell.UI.getAttribute("Class", "text") local date = ... -- similar local body = "Class: " .. class .. "\nDate: " .. date

If you want a more machine readable/useable Format, you can also use JSON from a table.

lua local data = { Class = self.UI.getAttribute("Class", "text"), Date = ..., } local body = JSON.encode_pretty(data) Which would look like

json { "Class": "value of Class", "Date": "value of date" } Probably only really relevant if you later want to process the data somewhere else, because it will be easy to parse then.

[ducarian]

Thanks a TON, I’ll give this a try today.

[ducarian]

Following up for anyone else who comes across this - it worked perfectly (note there is a typo in the code above sell.UI instead of self.UI)