Create a textItem outside of a dymamic form

Smartclient version : v9.0p_2013-11-03
Browser : IE8

Hi I am working on a requirement where in a window I need to create a textItem and a submit button and upon clicking submit make an RPC call retrieve data and populate the data in a list grid. I am not using a dynamic form. The following is the code I am using the generate the text Item but it does not seem to work.

isc.TextItem.create({
title : "from",
width : 100
});

Is there any other api that I need to use to generate the textItem ?