Hello The_K_Studio. Thanks for sharing this sms reader extension.
I have successfully added the extension to my app. I see "smsReader" listed under extensions on the Designer screen:
The issue I have is when I go to Blocks, I dont see any Blocks related to smsReader. Im missing something. This is my first time using an extension. I am still researching the web on how to get the blocks to be available.
Thanks in advance
You have to also drag the extension from the Extension pallette to the project area in the Designer.
Thanks, Duh. Like everything else, needs to be dragged to working area. This worked
Hello K studio,
I got this to work when I click on one button to populate the senders list. After selecting the sender another button grabs all the messages from chosen sender.
However, to make the app more user friendly, I tried to have the above done automatically when the app is open. Reason being that the app am writing will be accessing messages from one particular sender. Unfortunately, the list comes up as blank. Not sure where I went wrong.
Here's the blocks I made:
In the circled area, you capture the incoming messages but then immediately overwrite them with something else from some global variable.
Pretty pointless, right?
Also, text blocks supply their own quotes.
Doubly quoted text would probably fail any matches
Thank you for the response.
I found an acceptable workaround using Listpicker and listview. My intention was to skip the two step button push to first retrieve sender list then another to retrieve sender's messages. The text I had in quotes is not a global variable but the short code name of the wanted sender i.e. in the sender list to be scanned and MPESA be selected for message retrieval.
I now understand why it came blank because of the overwrite. In any case the workaround works for me.
Thanks again
