How to change the property of a component from the frontend code

[Phillip_Wu]

I am making a custom component similar to the built-in multistate button but with some extra visual. I need to determine which button has been clicked so that the onClick script will work properly. The built-in multistate button does this by changing the controlValue. I want to know how that is done so that I can implement the same behaviour.

Thanks in advance!

[PGriffith]

How to update custom component props in the designer

If you really need to write it manually, then you should have access to an implicit props that contains a reference to the ComponentStore, which itself contains a reference to the component's props, meta, custom as PropertyTree objects with a write method, e.g: this.props.store.props.write("path", value); However, the input fields in Perspective are a fair bit more complicated than just simple <Input> wrappers since they need to handle theming across browsers, the "defer updates" settings, and…