Text and input boxes

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Text and input boxes

You can use Text to label the components of a dialog.

Input fields (TextBox statement) accept text input from the user.

dialog_input

Syntax:

 Text X, Y, Width, Height, Text

 TextBox X, Y, Width, Height, .ID

ID is a variable that contains the current text.

Example:

Sub Main

 Begin Dialog TextBoxSample 16, 30, 180, 96, "Text and input boxes"

         OKButton 132, 20, 40, 14

         CancelButton 132, 44, 40, 14

         Text 8, 8, 32, 8, "Input field:"

         TextBox 8, 20, 100, 12, .TextBox1

 End Dialog

 Dim Dlg1 As TextBoxSample

 rc% = Dialog(Dlg1)

End Sub