^ i can call window.prompt with a hard coded strin...

# javascript

[aa]

^ i can call window.prompt with a hard coded string but not the string I want from a kotlin object, get

Unresolved reference. None of the following candidates is applicable because of receiver type mismatch:

[konsoletyper]

Can you please provide a complete reproducible example of code?

[aa]

it's basically just this example https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-fullstack-sample/tree/master/frontend but trying to call window.prompt(str, str)

[bashor]

@aa What exactly did you write? window.prompt(str, str)?
If so, what is type of str?

[aa]

window.prompt("hi", "there") works great. But window.prompt("hi", str) where str is a val of type String doesnt

[bashor]

this works for me https://try.kotl.in/#/UserProjects/7au0b2nj67joqnssnus3kgghnd/a73f04uc23is8oco42ditgou59

[aa]

hmm i see what you are saying, and good point, your simple example works. But inside something with kotlinx.html i get

Unresolved reference. None of the following candidates is applicable because of receiver type mismatch: 
public var CommonAttributeGroupFacade.id: String defined in kotlinx.html
public var CommonAttributeGroupFacade.id: String defined in kotlinx.html
:frontend:compileKotlin2Js FAILED

[bashor]

Do you refer to id? Looks like the problem is there.

[bashor]

Could you share your version of kotlin-fullstack-sample or something else to reproduce the problem?

[aa]

ahhh, i see my mistake. thank u 🙂

[aa]

i was calling .id on an something and that was just the wrong name, error msg confused me