# API2 strikes again **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [April 17, 2021, 8:51am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/api2-strikes-again/62774 "2021-04-17T08:51:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Emile_Schwarz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 8:51am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/api2-strikes-again/62774/1 "2021-04-17T08:51:37Z")
I was fooling around adding an Open Text button and I took the example found there: [https://documentation.xojo.com/api/files/textinputstream.html](https://documentation.xojo.com/api/files/textinputstream.html) and I get an error… in that line: ``` TextArea1.Value = t.ReadAll ``` Of course I squashed it. Xojo 2021r1 / Big Sur 11.2.3 BTW: no keyboard shortcut for help now ? ---
**Author:** ![Jeannot\_Muller](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/jeannot_muller/32/13359_2.png) [@Jeannot\_Muller](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Jeannot_Muller)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/api2-strikes-again/62774/2 "2021-04-17T09:04:11Z")
Works for me out-of-the-box. Do you perhaps have a typo in the text area name on your window? ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Schmitz](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/christian_schmitz/32/158_2.png) [@Christian\_Schmitz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Christian_Schmitz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/api2-strikes-again/62774/3 "2021-04-17T09:05:37Z")
And what error? ---
**Author:** ![Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Emile_Schwarz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/api2-strikes-again/62774/4 "2021-04-17T09:21:39Z")
> [@Emile\_Schwarz](#): > > `TextArea1. **Value** ` **VALUE**. When changed to .Text it worked !!! ---
**Author:** ![MarkusR](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/markusr/32/685_2.png) [@MarkusR](https://forum.xojo.com/u/MarkusR)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/api2-strikes-again/62774/5 "2021-04-17T09:26:37Z")
> [@Emile\_Schwarz](#): > > TextArea1 seems Value got deprecated, have you enabled treat warnings as error? have you a error screenshots with .Value? ---
**Author:** ![Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Emile_Schwarz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 9:36am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/api2-strikes-again/62774/6 "2021-04-17T09:36:14Z")
Out of the box as is my brain… A coffee is needed in the parking, white car, please ! Yes, it is deprecated, but the documentation forgot one update. Imagine a newbie (with $ in his pockets) there ! ---
**Author:** ![MarkusR](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/markusr/32/685_2.png) [@MarkusR](https://forum.xojo.com/u/MarkusR)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/api2-strikes-again/62774/7 "2021-04-17T09:40:16Z")
> [@Emile\_Schwarz](#): > > the documentation forgot one update as always 🙂 should be compiled and then generated … maybe together with the text at webpage it could be provided as xojo binary download as working example. ---
**Author:** ![Jeannot\_Muller](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/jeannot_muller/32/13359_2.png) [@Jeannot\_Muller](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Jeannot_Muller)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/api2-strikes-again/62774/8 "2021-04-17T09:42:09Z")
Gotcha. We have a different understanding of “error”. “Value” is deprecated indeed, but it would still work. Your Analysis warning settings are as follows: ![Screenshot 2021-04-17 at 11.31.35](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8794d0d2a4f49bfbd95418d7fc01c352bfcce2a3.png) In this case the IDE strikes back hard for everything not following API2 and you are getting the hint to use _ **text** _ now. ![Screenshot 2021-04-17 at 11.31.05](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/2X/1/19290cf5945961ee403d11c42466ed4263165b05.jpeg) But if you un-check that box, your code will still be running. I usually use it unchecked for old projects, where I am only doing a few changes, but don’t want to “optimize” the code. For new project I will switch it on. Nevertheless good catch, and the documentation should be updated.@Paul_Lefebvre is often doing such changes, but it obviously simplifies Xojo’s workflows by raising a FC or sending an email to [docs@xojo.com](mailto:docs@xojo.com) ---
**Author:** ![Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Emile_Schwarz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/api2-strikes-again/62774/9 "2021-04-17T09:43:30Z")
I have the zip archive handly, but not my codes to the web file server, so I placed my gun on the other shoulder 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Emile_Schwarz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 9:45am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/api2-strikes-again/62774/10 "2021-04-17T09:45:55Z")
I wrote the code minutes ago… in a just created project to watch for unseen CRLF icon in TextArea… look at that thread to understand… So, no, this project is not old.