Rebol 3 - R3-GUI - How to access text from an area?

Question

I'm struggling a lot coming from R2 and dealing with faces. get-facet seems extremely unintuitive to me.

Let's say I have an area:

view [c: area "hello"] print get-facet c 'text-edit

get-facet always returns "hello" even if I type something else in the area. What is going on with this? The 'caret and 'state facet objects contain the correct text, but I cannot find a way to access them.

Answer 1

The correct command is get-face. Get facet should be used for

For the example above, it is fixed by:

view [c: area "hello"] print get-face c

From an explanation from Cyphre: get-face is intended for the application programmers but get-facet is intended for style developers because it directly accesses the style internals. If styles are updated it may break code if get-face is not used. One should avoid using refinements such as /text or /data on faces as it was easy to do in R2

AREA's facet TEXT-EDIT looks like it just stores the initialization, and the state/caret facet objects contain run-time data