reverse engineering keyboard press demo

[DaveC426913]

I am trying to build an app much like the keyboard_press_demo.

What is this line:

local value = gre.get_data("titletext") --Get titletext contents.
When I add it to my own script, it says "ERROR ...attempt to concatenate field 'titletext' (a nil value)".

I don't find any control, property, variable or function called titletext.

[jason]

I think it because you need to declare the variable as a table first. So I believe this will work

local value = {}
value = gre.get_data("titletext")

[DaveC426913]

No I don't think that's the problem. My code matches the sample.

It's titletext that it can't find. It does not appear anywhere in the sample that I can tell, yet it's pulling it from somewhere.

[jason]

If you didn't use the correct pathing for the variable you would see an error when you tried to use it.

Does "titletext" have it's context set to Application? if not you'll need to add the layer and control of the variable to the string passed. So if "titletext" had a context of control1 and belongs to layer3 then you'd need do this

gre.get_data("layer3.control1.titletext")