CT EDIT

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.

Related commands & functions

• Commands: General
• Commands: UI Eventhandlers
• endl (to insert line breaks)

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.

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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;

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Missions: Since Arma 3 v2.02 one can use import SomeClass; to initialise a class (see the import keyword).

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};
};