ctrlCreate

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Description

Description:

Creates a new control in the given display.
The control class could be an existing class from the main config or a custom class defined in the mission config. The main config is searched first, if the class does not exist there, the mission config is searched. Some of the common controls defined in the main config that can be used with this command: Show list

Class	Description	Available since
RscText	simple text box
RscStructuredText	text box which supports structured text
RscTextMulti	simple multiline text box
RscPicture	simple picture box
RscPictureKeepAspect	picture box that doesn't stretch picture
RscEdit	input box
RscEditMulti	multiline input box
RscEditReadOnly	input box with canModify = false;	v1.97
RscEditMultiReadOnly	multiline input box with canModify = false;	v1.97
RscTree	tree view control
RscTreeMulti	multi-select tree view	v2.01
RscTreeSearch	searchable tree view control (see Example 4)
RscVideo	picture control with autostart for video texture (see BIS_fnc_playVideo)
RscVideoKeepAspect	picture control for video to keep original video aspect ratio
RscButtonMenuBIKI	shortcut button with url pointing to "https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/"	v1.97
RscControlsGroup	default controls group
RscControlsGroupNoScrollbars	controls group without scrollbars
RscControlsGroupNoHScrollbars	controls group without horizontal scrollbar
RscControlsGroupNoVScrollbars	controls group without vertical scrollbar

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This list contains controls which are guaranteed to work with his command. However, controls not listed here should work as well - as long as they are properly defined.

Groups:

GUI Control

Syntax

Syntax:

display ctrlCreate [class, idc, controlsGroup]

Parameters:

display: Display - Display in which control will be created

[class, idc, controlsGroup]: Array

class: String - Existing classname (see ctrlCreate/classnames) of the new control (Since Arma 3 v1.69.141213 it is possible to use classes defined in mission config)

idc: Number - IDC of the new control (use -1 if you don't care what it should be)

controlsGroup (Optional): Control - Creates controls in existing controls group

Return Value:

Control

Examples

Example 1:

_display ctrlCreate ["RscText", 1234];

Example 2:

_map = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscMapControl", -1]; _multiLineText = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscTextMulti", -1]; _multiLineEdit = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscEditMulti", -1];

Example 3:

myControl = findDisplay 0 ctrlCreate ["RscText", 1234, findDisplay 0 displayCtrl 2300];

Example 4:

Create Tree View control with search. Available RscTreeSearch class is hardcoded to be used with RscEdit with idc 645. Example below demonstrates how to. After tree is generated, try typing something in the top box. [] spawn { disableSerialization; _display = findDisplay 46 createDisplay "RscDisplayEmpty"; _edit = _display ctrlCreate ["RscEdit", 645]; _edit ctrlSetPosition [0,0,1,0.04]; _edit ctrlSetBackgroundColor [0,0,0,1]; _edit ctrlCommit 0; _tv = _display ctrlCreate ["RscTreeSearch", -1]; _tv ctrlSetFont "EtelkaMonospacePro"; _tv ctrlSetFontHeight 0.03; _tv ctrlSetPosition [0,0.06,1,0.94]; _tv ctrlSetBackgroundColor [0,0,0,1]; _tv ctrlCommit 0; _classes = "true" configClasses (configFile >> "CfgVehicles"); for "_i" from 0 to 5 do { _tv tvAdd [[], configName selectRandom _classes]; for "_j" from 0 to 5 do { _tv tvAdd [[_i], configName selectRandom _classes]; for "_k" from 0 to 5 do { _tv tvAdd [[_i, _j], configName selectRandom _classes]; for "_n" from 0 to 5 do { _tv tvAdd [[_i, _j, _k], configName selectRandom _classes]; }; }; }; }; };

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The built-in CT_TREE search is very slow, you would probably be better off redrawing the whole list each time. Fixed in version 2.01

Example 5:

Create a simple submit edit box and show content in hint: disableSerialization;

private _display = findDisplay 46 createDisplay "RscDisplayEmpty"; private _ctrlGroup = _display ctrlCreate ["RscControlsGroupNoScrollbars", -1]; private _ctrlBackground = _display ctrlCreate ["RscTextMulti", -1, _ctrlGroup]; IDD_EDIT_BOX = 123; private _ctrlEdit = _display ctrlCreate ["RscEditMulti", IDD_EDIT_BOX, _ctrlGroup]; private _ctrlButton = _display ctrlCreate ["RscShortcutButton", -1, _ctrlGroup]; _ctrlGroup ctrlSetPosition [0.5, 0.5, 0, 0]; _ctrlGroup ctrlCommit 0; _ctrlBackground ctrlSetPosition [0, 0, 0.5, 0.5]; _ctrlBackground ctrlSetBackgroundColor [0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.9]; _ctrlBackground ctrlSetText "ENTER TEXT:"; _ctrlBackground ctrlEnable false; _ctrlBackground ctrlCommit 0; _ctrlEdit ctrlSetPosition [0.01, 0.05, 0.48, 0.34]; _ctrlEdit ctrlSetBackgroundColor [0, 0, 0, 0.5]; _ctrlEdit ctrlCommit 0; _ctrlButton ctrlSetPosition [0.185, 0.42, 0.13, 0.05]; _ctrlButton ctrlCommit 0; _ctrlButton ctrlSetText "SUBMIT"; _ctrlButton ctrlAddEventHandler ["ButtonClick", { params ["_ctrl"]; _display = ctrlParent _ctrl; _text = ctrlText (_display displayCtrl IDD_EDIT_BOX); if (_text == "") then { _text = "EMPTY" }; hint _text; _display closeDisplay 1; }]; ctrlSetFocus _ctrlEdit; _ctrlGroup ctrlSetPosition [0.25, 0.25, 0.5, 0.5]; _ctrlGroup ctrlCommit 0.1;

playSound "Hint3";

Additional Information

See also:

allControlsallDisplayscontrolsGroupCtrlctrlDeletectrlModelctrlSetModelctrlPositionctrlSetPositionctrlClassNamectrlModelScalectrlSetModelScalectrlModelDirAndUpctrlSetModelDirAndUpdisplayParent

Notes

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Posted on September 16, 2019 - 07:09 (UTC)

R3vo

Regarding search speed in example 4: The search is incredible slow if items are only added to the first level. As soon as multiple levels are added, the search becomes faster.
Therefore it is not recommended to use a CT_TREE control as CT_LISTBOX just to have access to the engine driven incremental search.
Update: Since 2.01 the engine driven search has become drastically faster. Therefore it is now even possible to use a CT_TREE controls as CT_LISTBOX and have excess to the build-in search functionality.