How do you change the value inside of a textfield flutter?

Question

I have a TextEditingController where if a user clicks a button it fills in with information. I can\'t seem to figure out how to change the text inside of a

Answer 1

You can use the text editing controller to manipulate the value inside a textfield.

var textController = new TextEditingController();

Now, create a new textfield and set textController as the controller for the textfield as shown below.

 new TextField(controller: textController)

Now, create a RaisedButton anywhere in your code and set the desired text in the onPressed method of the RaisedButton.

new RaisedButton(
       onPressed: () {
          textController.text = "New text";
       }
    ),