class EditTextWidget

Defined in: C4Widgets.h

The EditTextWidget class represents an interface widget that displays an editable text box.

Definition

class EditTextWidget : public TextWidget

Constructor

EditTextWidget(const Vector2D& size, long maxGlyph, const char *font = nullptr);

Parameters

`size`	The size of the text box, in pixels.
`maxGlyph`	The maximum number of characters that can be entered into the text box.
`font`	The name of the font in which the text is displayed.

Description

The EditTextWidget class displays an editable text box that allows a single line or multiple lines of text entry.

The default widget color corresponds to the kWidgetColorText color type and determines the color of the text. Other color types supported by the edit text widget are kWidgetColorBorder, kWidgetColorBackground, kWidgetColorHilite, kWidgetColorFocus, and kWidgetColorCaret. If a highlight color or focus color have not been explicitly specified, then the Interface Manager's global highlight color or focus color is used.

Base Classes

TextWidget The text displayed in the text box is based on the TextWidget class.