CT_EDIT

Control Types / MACRO (TYPE VALUE)
Text/Image/Video	CT_STATIC (0) \| CT_EDIT (2) \| CT_HTML (9) \| CT_STRUCTURED_TEXT (13)
Buttons	CT_BUTTON (1) \| CT_ACTIVETEXT (11) \| CT_SHORTCUTBUTTON (16) \| CT_CHECKBOX (77) \| CT_XBUTTON (41)
Lists	CT_COMBO (4) \| CT_TOOLBOX (6) \| CT_CHECKBOXES (7) \| CT_TREE (12) \| CT_CONTROLS_TABLE (19) \| CT_XCOMBO (44) \| CT_LISTBOX (5) \| CT_LISTNBOX (102) \| CT_LISTNBOX_CHECKABLE (104) CT_XLISTBOX (45)
3D Objects	CT_OBJECT (80) \| CT_OBJECT_ZOOM (81) \| CT_OBJECT_CONTAINER (82) \| CT_OBJECT_CONT_ANIM (83)
Maps	CT_MAP (100) \| CT_MAP_MAIN (101)
Meta	CT_SLIDER (3) \| CT_XSLIDER (43) \| CT_PROGRESS (8) \| CT_CONTROLS_GROUP (15)
Menu	CT_CONTEXT_MENU (14) \| CT_MENU (46) \| CT_MENU_STRIP (47)
Unknown	CT_STATIC_SKEW (10) \| CT_HITZONES (17) \| CT_VEHICLETOGGLES (18) \| CT_XKEYDESC (40) \| CT_ANIMATED_TEXTURE (45) \| CT_LINEBREAK (98) \| CT_USER (99) \| CT_ITEMSLOT (103) \| CT_VEHICLE_DIRECTION (105)

Introduction

An editable text box, which allows the user to either enter text himself or to select and copy its content.

Two edit boxes with text. The upper one has some text selected.
CT_EDIT with the autocomplete option.

Related commands & functions

Related User Interface Eventhandlers

Events: General

Alphabetical Order

ⓘ

TokenNames common to most controls, such as x, y, w, h, text, idc... can be found here.

⚠

Not all of the listed attributes might have an effect nor might the list be complete. All attributes were gathered with this config crawler.

#define CT_EDIT 2

A

autocomplete

Type: String, Number
Description: One of:

"" (no autocompletion)
"scripting" (entered text will automatically be completed with matching script command)
"general" (autocomplete will use some of the last entered words like the chat does)

String example:

autocomplete = "";

Number example:

autocomplete = 0;

C

canModify

Type: Number
Description: When 0, only (optionally combined with ⇧ Shift) ←, →, HOME, END and Ctrl + C can be used

canModify = 1;

colorActive

Type: Array
Description: n/a

colorActive[] = {0.23,0.35,0.42,0.9};

colorSelection

Type: Array
Description: The text selection highlight color.

colorSelection[] = {"(profilenamespace getvariable ['GUI_BCG_RGB_R',0.13])","(profilenamespace getvariable ['GUI_BCG_RGB_G',0.54])","(profilenamespace getvariable ['GUI_BCG_RGB_B',0.21])",1};

F

forceDrawCaret

Type: Number
Description: When 1, the caret will be drawn even when control has no focus or is disabled.

forceDrawCaret = 1;

L

linespacing

Type: Number
Description: n/a

linespacing = 1;

M

maxChars

Type: Number
Description: The limit for how many characters could be displayed or entered, counting new line characters too.

maxChars = 3;

Default Classes

AddOns: Classes need to be initialised first with class SomeClass;

Missions: Since Arma 3 v2.02 one can use import SomeClass; to initialise a class (see import). In older versions, use "Default" call BIS_fnc_exportGUIBaseClasses; and paste the result into the description.ext.

RscEdit

class RscEdit
{
	deletable = 0;
	fade = 0;
	access = 0;
	type = CT_EDIT;
	x = 0;
	y = 0;
	h = 0.04;
	w = 0.2;
	colorBackground[] = {0,0,0,0};
	colorText[] = {0.95,0.95,0.95,1};
	colorDisabled[] = {1,1,1,0.25};
	colorSelection[] =
	{
		"(profilenamespace getvariable ['GUI_BCG_RGB_R',0.13])",
		"(profilenamespace getvariable ['GUI_BCG_RGB_G',0.54])",
		"(profilenamespace getvariable ['GUI_BCG_RGB_B',0.21])",
		1
	};
	autocomplete = "";
	text = "";
	size = 0.2;
	style = ST_FRAME;
	font = "RobotoCondensed";
	shadow = 2;
	sizeEx = GUI_TEXT_SIZE_MEDIUM;
	canModify = 1;
	tooltipColorText[] = {1,1,1,1};
	tooltipColorBox[] = {1,1,1,1};
	tooltipColorShade[] = {0,0,0,0.65};
};