TextItemGetText

This function returns the current text of the specified textitem.

Syntax

string textItemGetText ( textitem theTextitem )             

Required Arguments

• theTextitem: A valid textitem.

Returns

Returns a string containing the text if the function was successful, false otherwise.

Example

Increment a score display. In real scripts it's of course better to just keep a 'score' variable and only use textItemSetText.

function givePoint ( player )
    local scoretextitem = scoretextitems[player]
    local score = textItemGetText ( scoretextitem )
    score = tostring(tonumber(score) + 1)
    textItemSetText ( scoretextitem, score )
end

See Also

• textCreateDisplay
• textCreateTextItem
• textDestroyDisplay
• textDestroyTextItem
• textDisplayAddObserver
• textDisplayAddText
• textDisplayGetObservers
• textDisplayIsObserver
• textDisplayRemoveObserver
• textDisplayRemoveText
• textItemGetColor
• textItemGetPosition
• textItemGetPriority
• textItemGetScale
• textItemGetText
• textItemSetColor
• textItemSetPosition
• textItemSetPriority
• textItemSetScale
• textItemSetText