Extracting values from widgets doesn't work

[srgk26]

Hi! It would be great if someone would be able to help out. I have this code, just to test out filepicker to see if the file name/path gets reflected in the output. This code should give the file name/path into a new Blink window, which I'm not getting:

using Blink, Interact
w = Blink.Window()
function inputs()
	test = Interact.filepicker()
	next = html"""<button onclick='Blink.msg("press", "foo")'>Next</button>"""
	Widget(["test"=>test, "next"=>next])
end
page = Interact.node(:html,
	Interact.node(:p, inputs()["test"]),
	Interact.node(:p, inputs()["next"]))
Blink.body!(w, page)

Blink.handle(w, "press") do args...
	body!(w, inputs()["test"][]::String)
end

I'm not getting any file name out of this. I tried the same for dropdown menu:

using Blink, Interact
w = Blink.Window()
function inputs()
	test = Interact.dropdown(["dog", "cat", "dolphin"])
	next = html"""<button onclick='Blink.msg("press", "foo")'>Next</button>"""
	Widget(["test"=>test, "next"=>next])
end
page = Interact.node(:html,
	Interact.node(:p, inputs()["test"]),
	Interact.node(:p, inputs()["next"]))
Blink.body!(w, page)

Blink.handle(w, "press") do args...
	body!(w, inputs()["test"][]::String)
end

The output gives the first option on the list, even though I would've selected the 2nd or 3rd options. And this code worked before though, that's why I'm confused. Though I used my Mac OS previously, just recently switched to Arch Linux. But I built Julia using the official binary in the https://julialang.org/downloads page, not compiled from source using package manager, to avoid the 'Arpack' dependency build issues. The Julia REPL also keeps giving warnings : Warning: Please upgrade WebIO for a smoother integration with Blink.. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with this, but my WebIO has been updated to the latest #master version.

[srgk26]

Ok, I see the problem now. I should do

using Blink, Interact
w = Blink.Window()
function inputs()
	test = Interact.filepicker()
	next = html"""<button onclick='Blink.msg("press", "foo")'>Next</button>"""
	Widget(["test"=>test, "next"=>next])
end
InputsFn = inputs()
page = Interact.node(:html,
	Interact.node(:p, InputsFn ["test"]),
	Interact.node(:p, InputsFn ["next"]))
Blink.body!(w, page)

Blink.handle(w, "press") do args...
	body!(w, InputsFn ["test"][]::String)
end

This works for some reason. So I'm closing the issue now.