Setting variable value (mosync native ui)

[samvb]

I had asked the mosync community but there seems to be an inactive community. The question is more javascript as well.

I have a widget editBox defined as

<div data-widgetType="EditBox"
                        id="searchword"
                        data-width="FILL_AVAILABLE_SPACE"
data-text=""data-fontSize="26">
                    </div>
 

on top of my page is my javascript files (i.e. warmhole.js) and a custom function defined as follows

function getEntry(){
var word2="";
 var searchtextctrl=document.getNativeElementById("searchword");
//read its text property now then save it to word2 var
                searchtextctrl.getProperty("text",
                function(property,value)
                 { 
            word2=value;
                },
                function()
                {
            word2="";
                }
                );
 
 
}
//if (!word2) { //tried as well (word=="")
//no entry
}
 

The problem is word2 is blank. the line word2=value is working fine as its output is ok. But after it gets out of the getproperty function, word2 seems to be reset to blank. What am i missing?

[gits]

i aligned your code properly to understand what you were asking by looking at the code:

function getEntry() {
    var word2 = "";
    var searchtextctrl = document.getNativeElementById("searchword");
 
    //read its text property now then save it to word2 var
    searchtextctrl.getProperty("text", function(property, value) { 
            word2 = value;
        },
        function() {
            word2 = "";
        }
    );
}
 
 
if (!word2) { //tried as well (word=="")
    //no entry
}
 

when you have a close look at it - you define the variable word2 locally in the scope of your getEntry-function, thus you cannot access its value outside of it.