Lua:Class:Control

Control Class (Inheritance Component->Object) control_setCaption(control, caption)

 Sets the text on a control. All the gui objects fall in this category

control_getCaption(control)

 Returns the text of the control

control_setPosition(control, x,y)

 Sets the x and y position of the object base don the top left position (relative to the client array of the owner object)

control_getPosition(contron)

 Returns the x and y position of the object (relative to the client array of the owner object)

control_setSize(control, width,height)

 Sets the width and height of the control

control_getSize(control)

 Sets the size of the control

control_setAlign(control, alignmentoption)

 Sets the alignment of the control

control_getAlign(control, alignmentoption)

 Gets the alignment of the control

control_getEnabled(control)

 Gets the enabled state of the control

control_setEnabled(control, boolean)

 Sets the enabled state of the control

control_getVisible(control)

 Gets the visible state of the control

control_setVisible(control, boolean)

 Sets the visible state of the control

control_getColor(control)

 Gets the color

control_setColor(control, rgb)

 Sets the color

control_getParent(control)

 Returns nil or an object that inherits from the Wincontrol class

control_setParent(control)

 Sets the parent for this control

control_getPopupMenu(control)

 Gets the assigned popup menu to this control

control_setPopupMenu(control)

 Sets the popup menu for this control

control_onClick(control, functionnameorstring)

 Sets the onclick routine
 function (sender)

--Example:
local forms = createForm()
local labels = createLabel(forms)

--Caption
control_setCaption(labels, "My first label")
local variable = control_getCaption(labels)
print(variable)

--Position
control_setPosition(labels,30,30)
x,y=control_getPosition(labels)
print("X coord of label is "..x.."; Y coord of label is "..y)

--Enabled?
local editbox1 = createEdit(forms)
local editbox2 = createEdit(forms)
control_setEnabled(editbox1,false)
if control_getEnabled(editbox1) then

   else
   print "editbox1 not enabled"
   control_setCaption(editbox1,"editbox1")
end

control_setEnabled(editbox2,true)
  if control_getEnabled(editbox2) then
  print "editbox2  enabled"
  control_setCaption(editbox2,"editbox2")
end

control_setPosition(editbox1,30,60)
control_setPosition(editbox2,30,90)