guiCreateButton

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This function allows creation of a GUI Button, which is a clickable item as part of GUI.

Syntax

 guiCreateButton ( )

Code Examples

client

This example creates an edit box alongside an "Output!" button. When the button is clicked, it will output the message in the edit box into the Chat Box.

--create our button
button = guiCreateButton( 0.7, 0.1, 0.2, 0.1, "Output!", true )
--Create an edit box and define it as "editBox".
editBox = guiCreateEdit( 0.3, 0.1, 0.4, 0.1, "Type your message here!", true )
-- and attach our button to the outputEditBox function
addEventHandler ( "onClientGUIClick", editBox, outputEditBox )
guiEditSetMaxLength ( editBox, 128 ) --the max chatbox length is 128, so force this

--setup our function to output the message to the chatbox
function outputEditBox ()
        local text = guiGetText ( editBox )--get the text from the edit box
        outputChatBox ( text ) --output that text
end
addEventHandler ( "onClientGUIClick", button, outputEditBox )

guiCreateButton

Syntax

Code Examples

See Also

GUI Functions

GUI Elements

Reference