guiGetText
Client-side
Server-side
Shared
Pair: guiSetText
This function is used to get the text of GUI elements like edit boxes, labels, buttons etc.
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- Method:gui-element:getText(...)
- Variable: .text
Syntax
string|false guiGetText ( gui-element guiElement )Required arguments
- guiElement: Element you wish to get text of.
Returns
Returns a string containing the requested element's text, or false if the gui element passed to the function is invalid.
- string|false: text
Code Examples
client
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 oflocal dummyGUIElement = guiCreateLabel(0.45, 0.48, 0.10, 0.04, "Hello world", true)-- Output the text of the label to chat boxoutputChatBox("Text in the GUI label: " .. guiGetText(dummyGUIElement))See Also
GUI Functions
- getChatboxCharacterLimit
- getChatboxLayout
- guiBlur
- guiBringToFront
- guiCheckBoxGetSelected
- guiCheckBoxSetSelected
- guiComboBoxAddItem
- guiComboBoxClear
- guiComboBoxGetItemCount
- guiComboBoxGetItemText
- guiComboBoxGetSelected
- guiComboBoxIsOpen
- guiComboBoxRemoveItem
- guiComboBoxSetItemText
- guiComboBoxSetOpen
- guiComboBoxSetSelected
- guiCreateBrowser
- guiCreateButton
- guiCreateCheckBox
- guiCreateComboBox
- guiCreateEdit
- guiCreateFont
- guiCreateGridList
- guiCreateLabel
- guiCreateMemo
- guiCreateProgressBar
- guiCreateRadioButton
- guiCreateScrollBar
- guiCreateScrollPane
- guiCreateStaticImage
- guiCreateTab
- guiCreateTabPanel
- guiCreateWindow
- guiDeleteTab
- guiEditGetCaretIndex
- guiEditGetMaxLength
- guiEditIsMasked
- guiEditIsReadOnly
- guiEditSetCaretIndex
- guiEditSetMasked
- guiEditSetMaxLength
- guiEditSetReadOnly
- guiFocus
- guiGetAlpha
- guiGetBrowser
- guiGetCursorType
- guiGetEnabled
- guiGetFont
- guiGetInputEnabled
- guiGetInputMode
- guiGetPosition
- guiGetProperties
- guiGetProperty
- guiGetScreenSize
- guiGetSelectedTab
- guiGetSize
- guiGetText
- guiGetVisible
- guiGridListAddColumn
- guiGridListAddRow
- guiGridListAutoSizeColumn
- guiGridListClear
- guiGridListGetColumnCount
- guiGridListGetColumnTitle
- guiGridListGetColumnWidth
- guiGridListGetHorizontalScrollPosition
- guiGridListGetItemColor
- guiGridListGetItemData
- guiGridListGetItemText
- guiGridListGetRowCount
- guiGridListGetSelectedCount
- guiGridListGetSelectedItem
- guiGridListGetSelectedItems
- guiGridListGetSelectionMode
- guiGridListGetVerticalScrollPosition
- guiGridListInsertRowAfter
- guiGridListIsSortingEnabled
- guiGridListRemoveColumn
- guiGridListRemoveRow
- guiGridListSetColumnTitle
- guiGridListSetColumnWidth
- guiGridListSetHorizontalScrollPosition
- guiGridListSetItemColor
- guiGridListSetItemData
- guiGridListSetItemText
- guiGridListSetScrollBars
- guiGridListSetSelectedItem
- guiGridListSetSelectionMode
- guiGridListSetSortingEnabled
- guiGridListSetVerticalScrollPosition
- guiLabelGetColor
- guiLabelGetFontHeight
- guiLabelGetTextExtent
- guiLabelSetColor
- guiLabelSetHorizontalAlign
- guiLabelSetVerticalAlign
- guiMemoGetCaretIndex
- guiMemoGetVerticalScrollPosition
- guiMemoIsReadOnly
- guiMemoSetCaretIndex
- guiMemoSetReadOnly
- guiMemoSetVerticalScrollPosition
- guiMoveToBack
- guiProgressBarGetProgress
- guiProgressBarSetProgress
- guiRadioButtonGetSelected
- guiRadioButtonSetSelected
- guiScrollBarGetScrollPosition
- guiScrollBarSetScrollPosition
- guiScrollPaneGetHorizontalScrollPosition
- guiScrollPaneGetVerticalScrollPosition
- guiScrollPaneSetHorizontalScrollPosition
- guiScrollPaneSetScrollBars
- guiScrollPaneSetVerticalScrollPosition
- guiSetAlpha
- guiSetEnabled
- guiSetFont
- guiSetInputEnabled
- guiSetInputMode
- guiSetPosition
- guiSetProperty
- guiSetSelectedTab
- guiSetSize
- guiSetText
- guiSetVisible
- guiStaticImageGetNativeSize
- guiStaticImageLoadImage
- guiWindowIsMovable
- guiWindowIsSizable
- guiWindowSetMovable
- guiWindowSetSizable
- isChatBoxInputActive
- isConsoleActive
- isDebugViewActive
- isMainMenuActive
- isMTAWindowActive
- isTransferBoxActive
- setChatboxCharacterLimit
- setDebugViewActive