Total newbie question. I cannot find the "get text " puzzle piece. I found when button1 click do, on button 1 but the i click text box1 and there is no "get text". I tried asking Grok, Chat GPT and Claude. did a search in the Forums also. Sorry if this is a really basic question but i am at my wits end. I verified the read only was not checked and it is enabled is checked.
We will have to guess, because you don't show us ...you want this block ?
or some other block?
Is your Blocks Toolkit set to Default in Project Properties ?
Get text from where or from who?
Or did you mean SMS text?
Hi, I’m working in MIT App Inventor’s Blocks editor on a screen with TextBox components. I can’t find the “get text” block in the component drawers (e.g., under TextBox1 or other TextBoxes) to retrieve user input. I’ve checked the individual TextBox sections and “Any TextBox,” but it’s not there. Using latest Chrome. Any fix? Thanks!Oh and I am using the default in tools.
This is what I see:
Show what you are seeing...
where did you see or heard this 'get text '? show us your tutorial in picture.
Full discloser I was using A.I (grok) to guide me along and it insisted that I should be seeing a "get text" puzzle piece in purple in this section. I have a button that would then open a place to enter text,. My goal is to have a button that says business name, push the button and you could enter the name of a business. other buttons would then allow you to enter information related to that business in different catagories.
 so you can use it, like saving it to TinyDB when “Save Session” is clicked.
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“Set TextBox1.Text to” writes new text into a TextBox (e.g., clearing it with “” or setting it to “Hello”), changing what’s displayed for the user.
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In short: “Get text” is for fetching data out, while “set TextBox1.Text to” is for putting data in.load:
This is the definition I found.
2. Drag any one block and choose the text from teh drop down
3. type anywher in the blocks section to get back the blocks
Thank you I will give a try. I appreciate the help
