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guiGetText

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Pair: guiSetText

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This function is used to get the text of GUI elements like edit boxes, labels, buttons etc.

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Syntax

string guiGetText ( element guiElement )
Required Arguments
  • guiElement: element you wish to get text of.

Returns

  • string: value

Returns a string containing the requested element's text, or false if the gui element passed to the function is invalid.

Code Examples

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This example gets the text of a pre-made gui element and outputs it to chat box.

-- We create a dummy gui label to get text of
local dummyGUIElement = guiCreateLabel ( 0.45, 0.48, 0.10, 0.04, "Hello world", true )
-- Output the text of the label to chat box
outputChatBox ( "Text in the GUI label: " .. guiGetText ( dummyGUIElement ) )

See Also

GUI Functions