GetChatboxLayout

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Returns information about how the chatbox looks.

Syntax

int getChatboxLayout ( string CVar )

Required Arguments

CVar: the name of the property you want returned. Can be the following values:
- chat_font - Returns the chatbox font
- chat_lines - Returns how many lines the chatbox has
- chat_color - Returns the background color of the chatbox
- chat_text_color - Returns the chatbox text color
- chat_input_color - Returns the background color of the chatbox input
- chat_input_prefix_color - Returns the color of the input prefix text
- chat_input_text_color - Returns the color of the text in the chatbox input
- chat_scale - Returns the scale of the text in the chatbox
- chat_width - Returns the scale of the background width
- chat_css_style_text - Returns whether text fades out over time
- chat_css_style_background - Returns whether the background fades out over time
- chat_line_life - Returns how long it takes for text to start fading out
- chat_line_fade_out - Returns how long takes for text to fade out
- chat_use_cegui - Returns whether CEGUI is used to render the chatbox
- text_scale - Returns text scale

Returns

4 numbers if the CVar contains "color"
2 numbers if chat_scale was entered
1 number if any other CVar was specified
false if an invalid CVar was specified

Example

This code makes the chatbox empty when you type /clear

addCommandHandler("clear",
    function ()
        local lines = getChatboxLayout()["chat_lines"]
        for i=1,lines do
            outputChatBox("")
        end
    end
)

GetChatboxLayout

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