[WEB400] Re: Javascript - changing button text

["nicolas faucheux" <nfaucheux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

the javascript code is placed to high in the page
the browser executes it before the buttons at the bottom are created

place the folowing code after the end of the form
function cbt(letter, newText) {
 var buttons = document.forms[0].elements[session + "/BUTTON.999-999=*" +
letter];
 for (var i=0;i<buttons.length;i++) {
  buttons[i].value = newText;
 }
}
cbt('E', "Enter/OK");
cbt('U', "Earlier");

try mozilla browser http://www.mozilla.org, it has a much better javascrit
debugger than IE

nicolas

"Rob Dixon" <rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans
le message de news:3FFC1693.1030906@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Using Javascript, I am trying to change the text displayed on buttons
> generated by AS/400 WSG, from F1, F2, etc. to my own labels.
>
> The buttons include the session name as part of their own name, followed
> by "/BUTTON.999.999="?", so I have to retrieve this.
>
> The question mark represents a unique character such as "E" or "U" or
> "V" or "1", etc.
>
> To retrieve the session name, my code is
>
> var session=(document.getElementById('SESSION').value);
>
> I use
>
> var buttonname = session + "/BUTTON.999-999=*E";  (for the Enter button)
>
> to identify the the button I require, using "E" or "U" or "V" instead of
> the questions mark.
>
> The code that actually changes the button text is
>
> document.getElementById(buttonname).value= "Enter/OK";
>
> This works fine and I can change the first three buttons at the top of
> the screen , but my code only changes the top instances of those
> buttons, not the repeats with the same name at the bottom of the screen.
>
> However, these are not the buttons I wish to change.  If I attempt
> change any of the F1 - F24 buttons by using the same code but by
> changing the
>
> code
>
> var buttonname = session + "/BUTTON.999-999=*E";  (for the Enter button)
> to (say)
> var buttonname = session + "/BUTTON.999-999=*1";  (for the F1 button)
>
> I get the message  'document.getElementById(...)' is null or not an
object.
>
> It may be a coincidence that the only buttons that I can change are the
> duplicates at the top of the screen
>
> Has anyone got any bright ideas please?  I have only doing Javascript
> for 5 days and I cannot find the answer in any of the books that I
> purchased.
>
> the total code (which could be neater but I want to get it to work
> first!) is
>