How to store string from user input using a widget in emcas?

Question

I have created a widget with an editable-field.

 (widget-create 'editable-field
                 :size 13
                 :format  "name: %v \n"
                 "Type in your name")

How can I now store only the user input? I tried setq before widget-create but it stores the entire widget definition.

Answer 1

I was able to store the user input using the notify field in the widget creation.

 (widget-create 'editable-field
                 :size 13
                 :format  "name: %v \n"
                 ;;"Type in your name"
                 :notify (lambda (widget &rest ignore)
                                  (setq *name*  (widget-value widget)))
    )