TextField.new

Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: TextField

Description

Creates a new TextField object with the specified font and text. Gideros runtime includes a default font. If you specify nil for the font parameter while creating the TextField object, default font is used.

TextField.new(font,text,sample,layout)

text has now more tags available (Gideros 2024.3):

• \e[u=val]underlined\e[!u], val = line thickness between 0 and 1
• \e[i=val]oblique\e[!i], val = text angle in degree
• \e[l=val1:val2]custom line placement and thickness\e[l], val1 = line placement (between -1 and 1), val2 = line thickness (between 0 and 1)
• \e[color=val]text color\e[color], val = hex color (ex: #f00)

Parameters

font: (FontBase) the font used for displaying the TextField object. If nil, default font is used
text: (string) the text to be displayed optional
sample: (string) sample to determine line height optional
layout: (table) layout parameters, see TextField:setLayout optional

Examples

Semi transparent colored text

local text = TextField.new(nil, "This is a \e[color=#f005]semi transparent red\e[color] text")
text:setPosition(32, 64)
stage:addChild(text)

New Gideros 2024.3 tags

local font = TTFont.new("fonts/arial.ttf", 20, "", nil, nil)
local tf = TextField.new(font,
	"Text is \e[u=0.2]underlined\e[!u], text is \e[i=15]oblique 15°\e[!i], custom \e[l=1:0.5]line placement and thickness\e[l], last \e[color=#f00]is text color\e[color].")
tf:setLayout { w=400, h=100, flags=1280|FontBase.TLF_CENTER|FontBase.TLF_VCENTER }
tf:setPosition(0, 40)
stage:addChild(tf)

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• TextField
• TextField.new
• TextField:getLayout
• TextField:getLetterSpacing
• TextField:getLineHeight
• TextField:getPointFromTextPosition
• TextField:getSample
• TextField:getText
• TextField:getTextColor
• TextField:getTextPositionFromPoint
• TextField:setFont
• TextField:setLayout
• TextField:setLetterSpacing
• TextField:setSample
• TextField:setText
• TextField:setTextColor

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