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Text

• Overview
• Properties
  • id
  • visibility
  • text
  • textalign
  • icon
  • image
• Styling
• Events
  • onchange
  • ondone

Overview

The text control is used for editing text input.

<text hint="enter value" onchange="update" />

actions.update = function (text)

end

Properties

id

Set the ID for this control so that it can be updated later. See layout library.

<text id="my_txt" />

visibility

Set the visibility state using visible or invisible or gone.

<text visibility="gone" />

text

Set the current text to be shown.

<text text="hello world" />

textalign

Set horizontal text alignment using left or center or right.

<text textalign="right" />

hint

Set the placeholder hint (text to be shown when empty).

<text hint="enter here" />

multiline

Set whether or not the control accepts multiline input (default false).

<text multiline="true" />

Styling

See the styling page for more details.

Events

onchange

Occurs when the text changes.

<text onchange="changed" />

actions.changed = function (text)
    ...
end

ondone

Occurs when editing ends.

<text ondone="done" />

actions.done = function (text)
    ...
end