Change Value of Textfield using CGI.pm

JulianBThomas has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am writing an Install program using CGI.pm and I want to display the current file being processed in a text field or text area.

as in when you press the submit button a textfield is created and this is then updated with the current value this is what I got that dosent work.

Is there a way I can change the value of the Textfield

if (param('Install'))
{
    $SourcePassword = param('SourcePassword');
       $SourceServer = param('SourceServer');
    $DestPassword = param('DestPassword');
       $DestServer = param('DestServer');
    $RootPath = param('RootPath');
    @InstallOptions = param('InstallOptions');
    @Permissions = param('Permissions');

    print p("Output Log:");
    #print $q->textarea( -name=>'OutputLog', -rows=>10, -cols=>80);
    print $q->textfield( -name=>'OutputLog',-override => true, -value 
+=> 'test' );    param('OutputLog','New Value');
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Re: Change Value of Textfield using CGI.pm by Anonyrnous Monk (Hermit) on Jan 13, 2011 at 13:36 UTC
Works fine for me: `use CGI; my $q = CGI->new(); print $q->textfield( -name=>'OutputLog',-override => true, -value => ' +test' );` [download] Output: `$ ./882118.pl <input type="text" name="OutputLog" value="test" /> ^^^^` [download] As you can see, the generated HTML text field has the value "test". Maybe your problem is somehow in the wider context you're using this snippet in...? Could you provide a stripped down, but self-contained CGI script that demonstrates the issue you're having? (within `<c>...</c>` tags please)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Change Value of Textfield using CGI.pm
by Anonyrnous Monk (Hermit) on Jan 13, 2011 at 13:36 UTC

Works fine for me:

use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new();

print $q->textfield( -name=>'OutputLog',-override => true, -value => '
+test' );
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Output:

$ ./882118.pl
<input type="text" name="OutputLog" value="test" />
                                           ^^^^
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As you can see, the generated HTML text field has the value "test".

Maybe your problem is somehow in the wider context you're using this snippet in...? Could you provide a stripped down, but self-contained CGI script that demonstrates the issue you're having? (within <c>...</c> tags please)

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