how to pass textbox value to function?

[whosyourdaddy]

hi,

i'm new to progess and i have problem passing value from html textbox to my function. below is the problem:

i have a function under webspeed:

<SCRIPT language="SpeedScript">
FUNCTION TestValue RETURNS CHARACTER(INPUT sCode AS CHARACTER):
DEFINE VARIABLE sDesc as character.

CASE sCode:
WHEN "A" THEN
DO:
sDESC = "AA".
END.
WHEN "B" THEN
DO:
sDESC = "BB".
END.

OTHERWISE
sDESC = sCode.

END CASE.

RETURN sDESC .
END FUNCTION.
</SCRIPT>

and under:

<script ID="clientEventHandlersVBS" LANGUAGE="vbscript">
Sub btnGetValue_onClick
txtDesc.value= "<%=TestValue('" & txtCode.value & "')%>"
msgbox(txtCode.value)
End Sub
</script>

when i click on the btnGetValue button, i want to return some value back to the txtDesc textbox in my html page. but, i alway get "?" display in the txtDesc textbox, but in the msgbox, it display the text that i typed in the txtCode. i suspect there is something wrong in this code:
txtDesc.value= "<%=TestValue('" & txtCode.value & "')%>"

if i hardcode it to txtDesc.value= "<%=TestValue('A')%>" then i can get the correct result "AA" but if i pass using
txtDesc.value= "<%=TestValue('" & txtCode.value & "')%>", it goes to the OTHERWISE case, any idea?

thanks.

 

[whosyourdaddy]

is it i need to do a post-back and then only can get the textbox value?

 

[Casper]

yes, or you have to write some javascript function to retrieve the entered value.
All progress code is handled server side. Client side you just have a HTML page.

Casper.