Create a text shared variable (init.user) or use one of the existing P1, P2, P3, etc. Configure the graphic to clear the target text variable. (There's an option to create a set of embedded commands that are run when a graphic is raised. Do it there. = P1 "") Configure the field on the graphic to read from the text variable Configure a pick point to open an overlay. On the overlay configure a data entry point to write to the text variable. Build "Confirm" and "Cancel" buttons. The "Confirm" button should use "getstr" (dmcmd getstr ; dmcmd close) to refresh the display and close the overlay. The "Cancel" button should set the text variable back to empty (= P1 ""; dmcmd close) and close the overlay. B0193DF explains the commands and how to use init.user. Regards, Alex Johnson Invensys Operations Management 10900 Equity Drive Houston, TX 77041 +1 713 329 8472 (desk) +1 713 329 1600 (operator) +1 713 329 1700 (Central Fax) alex.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of RAKESH DASH Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 2:55 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] BUTTON CLICK TO DISPLAY A TEXT Hi, I want to give a button on the main screen. When the user clicks on the button, a Tex box would pop up. He would enter the text in the box. After he says OK, The same text has to be displayed on the main screen. Stuck here, please help.. Regards, - Rakesh _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys plc, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at 3rd Floor, 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please go to http://www.invensys.com/en/legal/default.aspx. You may contact Invensys plc on +44 (0)20 3155 1200 or e-mail reception@xxxxxxxxxxxxx This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave