#Textwell manual code#

To input some data from the text view to your JavaScript, the web view has a global variable named 'T'. To handle the text on the main text view, Textwell's web view allows you to make interactions for getting data from the text view to let it be processed by JavaScript and setting data back to the main text view as the result of the action. In general, actions are designed to handle the text on the main text view because it is the only reasonable meaning of existence of actions. Writing JavaScript directly var message = 'Hello' While the web view is shown (either translucent is off or on), users can stop the action and close the web view by tapping the close button (with 'X' icon).įor the source of an action, you can write JavaScript directly, but also you can write HTML (which can include script elements).įor example, on the source editor (Action list > '+' button > select an action > 'Source'), both of the next two sources are valid. If you are showing your own user interface elements or contents in the web view, you should turn the translucent parameter OFF, so that users can see them. Actions can do anything that can be done with JavaScript and browser - processing strings, calculating, showing a dialog, jumping to a webpage, opening/sending data to another app, manipulating DOM, or something done by combining them. The written description can be shown in a message dialog by a user tapping little 'i' button on each action item in the action list.Īn action is a JavaScript program which runs in the built-in web view.

You can write a description about the action. Platform which an action can be used for: All, iPhone/iPad, or Mac. The confirmation dialog provides a chance for users to cancel executing the action. If this boolean parameter is set as 'ON,' Textwell shows a confirmation dialog when a user chooses the action from the action list.

#Textwell manual code#

Some specific objects, properties, and functions which can be used in your code for making great actions are described in the following sections. You can write JavaScript directly on the source view, but also you can write HTML (which can include script elements) on it. The source specifies the functionality of an action itself. It's just for a visual hint for the functionality. Icon doesn't affect the functionality of an action. You can choose an icon for the action by selecting one from the pre-defined icon list.

Title doesn't affect the functionality of an action, so you can name it as you like. To add a new action to your Textwell, tap the '+' button at the bottom of the action list view, then select 'Action.' On the opened action composer, specify title, icon, source, confirm, platform, and description.

Delegating an action to your online webpage.

When a user chooses an item in the action list, the built-in browser, which is called 'web view,' opens in front of the main text view, then the specified JavaScript source is loaded and executed in the web view. Adding new actions or modifying the existing actions to make them fit different user contexts is truly expected in the design concept of Textwell.įrankly, actions run by JavaScript, so that making actions is not a big deal for those who can write JavaScript.

Textwell has some pre-installed useful actions, but they are no more than examples. Because Textwell is just a single text box actually, its high customizability is the premise of convenience.