guiComboBoxGetItemText

Client-side

Server-side

Shared

This function retrieves the text from a specific combobox item.

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Method:gui-combobox:getItemText(...)

Syntax

string|false guiComboBoxGetItemText ( gui-combobox comboBox, int itemId )

Required arguments

comboBox: The combobox containing the item you're interested in.
itemId: The index of the item. Indexing starts at 0.

Returns

Returns the text of the item if the arguments are right, false otherwise.

string|false: item-text

Code Examples

client

This outputs selected item's text to the chatbox.

local x,y = guiGetScreenSize()

local guiWindow = createWindow(x/2-500,y/2-500,500,500,"myWindow",false,nil)
local comboBox = guiCreateComboBox(0.1,0,1,0.8,0.8,"Select a value please",true,guiWindow)
guiComboBoxAddItem(comboBox,"value1")

addCommandHandler("getText",function()
    local item = guiComboBoxGetSelected(comboBox)
    if (item == -1) then
        outputChatBox("No item selected!")
        return
    end

    local text = guiComboBoxGetItemText(comboBox, item)

    if text then
        outputChatBox("You have selected: " .. text)
    end
end)

guiComboBoxGetItemText

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Syntax

Required arguments

Returns

Code Examples

See Also

GUI Functions

GUI Elements

Reference