From: phasefx <phasefx@dcc99617-32d9-48b4-a31d-7c20da2025e4>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:34:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: get_text counterpart of set_text.  abstracts away the widget type involved
X-Git-Url: https://old-git.evergreen-ils.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=56bc6cd6697addc302e8ebd51e495002f42534e5;p=contrib%2FConifer.git

get_text counterpart of set_text.  abstracts away the widget type involved

git-svn-id: svn://svn.open-ils.org/ILS/trunk@14136 dcc99617-32d9-48b4-a31d-7c20da2025e4
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diff --git a/Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/chrome/content/util/widgets.js b/Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/chrome/content/util/widgets.js
index 259add0084..74681cf175 100644
--- a/Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/chrome/content/util/widgets.js
+++ b/Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/chrome/content/util/widgets.js
@@ -318,6 +318,30 @@ util.widgets.set_text = function(n,t) {
 	}
 }
 
+util.widgets.get_text = function(n) {
+	n = util.widgets.get(n);
+	switch(n.nodeName) {
+		case 'button' :
+		case 'caption' :
+			return n.getAttribute('label');
+		break;
+		case 'label' : 
+			return n.getAttribute('value'); 
+		break;
+		case 'description' : 
+		case 'H1': case 'H2': case 'H3': case 'H4': case 'SPAN': case 'P': case 'BLOCKQUOTE':
+			return n.textContent;
+		break;
+		case 'textbox' :
+			return n.value;
+		break;
+		default:
+			alert("FIXME: util.widgets.get_text doesn't know how to handle " + n.nodeName);
+            return null;
+		break;
+	}
+}
+
 util.widgets.save_attributes = function (file,ids_attrs) {
 	try {
 		var blob = {};