CONTROL GET TEXT statement

Purpose

Get the text from a control.

Syntax

CONTROL GET TEXT hDlg, id& TO txt$

Remarks

hDlg refers to the dialog that owns the control.

id& is the unique control identifier as assigned to the control with a CONTROL ADD statement. Any text in the control is placed into the txt$ variable.

With combo boxes, CONTROL GET TEXT returns the text entered in the edit portion of the control. To retrieve the selected text from the list portion of a combo box or a list box control, use the COMBOBOX GET TEXT statement or LISTBOX GET TEXT statement respectively.

See also

Dynamic Dialog Tools, COMBOBOX GET TEXT, CONTROL SET TEXT, LISTBOX GET TEXT, LISTVIEW GET TEXT, TREEVIEW GET TEXT