Newbie - How to make a Regular button work

Hi All,
I am new to Joomla and Chronoforms but it looks like it is what I am after.
I have no PHP or Java experience but heaps of VB etc.
BUT I am missing big pieces of the puzzle.

I have created a simple form (as per the video tutorials). I can create new records in a table and retrieve a record on load of the form.

What I cannot do is put a regular button on the form and retrieve a record when the user clicks on the button.
In fact I cannot even get the button to display 'Hello World' when clicked on.
I am obviously missing something.
Can somebody post some sample code that will allow me to display a 'hello World' message when the user clicks on the button.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Steven,

I'm sorry but I don't understand your question?

You want this button in the form? Or as a separate form?

How would it 'know' which record you want to display?

Bob

Hi,
The button is on the same form as the submit button.
It is just a simple example where I want to learn how to put code on the click event of a 'non-submit' button.
The code will do something like populate a field on the screen or echo back 'Hello World' (it doesn't really matter for this example).

I just don't understand how object events can be added to the form.
Also, how can I find out what other events Chronoform objects (like buttons, fields etc.) can have?

Thanks

Hi Steven,

You can attach any JavaScript event; plus code your own to any form element. The general MooTools format is

element.addEvent('event_name', function() { . . . });

So an alert on a button might be

$('button_id').addEvent('click', alert('Bananas');

See here for more info.

Bob