TextArea

Component Type: Actuator (Subcategory: Graphical User Interface)

The TextArea is a GUI component which displays (optionally user-editable) text information. It features multiple rows and a scrollbar, and event for appending string text, deleting characters or sending the text content

TextArea plugin

Input Port Description

• setText [string]: The text which will be displayed. It replaces the prior content of the Text Area.
• appendText [string]: This string input will be appended to te current content of the Text Area.

Output Port Description

• text [string]: The current content of the text area. Sent on incoming events at the "send" or "sendAndClear" event listener ports

Event Listener Description

• delete: Removes the last charater from the text area content.
• clear: Clears the text area content.
• send: Sends the text area content to te output port.
• sendAndClear: Sends the text area content to te output port and clears the text area.

Event Trigger Description

• clicked: The event is trigger when the user click on the component.
  

Properties

• caption [string]: Caption of the component.
• default [string]: Default content of the text area.
• editable [bolean]: Defines if the text area can be edited by the user.
• fontSize [integer]: The font size in pixels.
• textColor [integer]: Defines color of the text.
• backgroundColor [integer]: Defines background color.
• displayGUI [boolean]: If selected, the GUI of this component will be displayed - if not, the GUI will be hidden and disabled.