wxText is-a wxItem

A text item is used for displaying and editing a single line of text. It must be a child of a panel or dialog box. See also wxMultiText for multiline text items.

wxText value
wxText create
wxText set-value

wxText value

string value

The initial value. The handlers put-value and get-value are defined for this slot. set-value is a synonym for put-value.

wxText create

long ( create)

Creates a single-line text item on the given panel or dialog box. The following slots may be initialized.

• parent: should be a wxPanel or wxDialogBox.
• x: may be absent or -1 to denote default layout, or zero/positive integer.
• y: may be absent or -1 to denote default layout, or zero/positive integer.
• width: may be absent or -1 to denote default width, or a positive integer.
• height: may be absent or -1 to denote default height, or a positive integer.
• window-name: may be absent or a string name to identify this item.
• label: may be absent or a string name to label this item.
• style: see below.
• value: a string for initializing the value of the text item.

The style parameter can be a bit list of the following:

wxTE_PROCESS_ENTER	The callback function will receive the event wxEVENT_TYPE_TEXT_ENTER_COMMAND. Note that this will break tab traversal for this panel item under Windows. Single-line text only.
wxTE_PASSWORD	The text will be echoed as asterisks. Single-line text only.
wxTE_READONLY	The text will not be user-editable.
wxHSCROLL	A horizontal scrollbar will be displayed. If wxHSCROLL is omitted, only a vertical scrollbar is displayed, and lines will be wrapped. This parameter is ignored under XView. Multi-line text only.

wxText set-value

bool ( set-value string value)

Set the text item's string value. A synonym for put-value.