Question

Im working on a school project and i’m trying to check in GWT if a textbox i create is empty or not. I have done the exact same thing on another project and there it worked fine. i have searched for the answer here and on google but couldn’t find any answer.

voornaamTB = new TextBox();
voornaamTB.setText(null);

ok.addClickHandler(new ClickHandler() {
        public void onClick(ClickEvent event) {
            if (voornaamTB != null) {
                System.out.println("not empty");
            } else {
                System.out.println("empty");
            }
        }
    });

Answer 1

Something like:

if(!voornaamTB.getText().isEmpty()) { ...

will work. You’re currently testing to see whether the TextBox itself is null, which it isn’t as you initialized it on the first line.

You probably don’t need the setText(null) after immediately creating it.