guiEditGetMaxLength
Client-side
Server-side
Shared
Pair: guiEditSetMaxLength
This function returns the maximum text length that can be typed within an edit box.
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- Variable: .maxLength
Syntax
int|false guiEditGetMaxLength ( gui-edit guiEdit )Required arguments
- guiEdit: The edit box you want to get the maximum text length of.
Returns
Returns the maximum text length on success, false otherwise.
- int|false: max length
Code Examples
client
This example outputs the maximum text length of an edit field to the chat.
local edit = guiCreateEdit(0.4, 0.4, 0.3, 0.1, "", true)
addEventHandler("onClientGUIChanged", edit, function() outputChatBox("Characters remaining in edit box: " .. guiEditGetMaxLength(source) - #guiGetText(source)) -- output remaining amount of charactersend)See Also
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