ctrlCreate

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Description

Description:

Creates a new control in the given display.
The control class could be an existing class from the main config or a custom class defined in the mission config. The main config is searched first, if the class does not exist there, the mission config is searched. Some of the common controls defined in the main config that can be used with this command:

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This list contains controls which are guaranteed to work with this command. However, controls not listed here should work as well - as long as they are properly defined.

Class	Description	Available since
RscText	simple text box
RscStructuredText	text box which supports structured text
RscTextMulti	simple multiline text box
RscPicture	simple picture box
RscPictureKeepAspect	picture box that doesn't stretch picture
RscEdit	input box
RscEditMulti	multiline input box
RscEditReadOnly	input box with `canModify = false;`	1.98
RscEditMultiReadOnly	multiline input box with `canModify = false;`	1.98
RscTree	tree view control
RscTreeMulti	multi-select tree view	2.02
RscTreeSearch	searchable tree view control (see Example 4)
RscVideo	picture control with autostart for video texture (see BIS_fnc_playVideo)
RscVideoKeepAspect	picture control for video to keep original video aspect ratio
RscButtonMenuBIKI	shortcut button with url pointing to "https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/"	1.98
RscControlsGroup	default controls group
RscControlsGroupNoScrollbars	controls group without scrollbars
RscControlsGroupNoHScrollbars	controls group without horizontal scrollbar
RscControlsGroupNoVScrollbars	controls group without vertical scrollbar

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If you are creating CT_MAP control dynamically, use ctrlMapSetPosition to update control position instead of ctrlSetPosition.

Groups:

GUI Control

Syntax

Syntax:: display ctrlCreate [class, idc, controlsGroup]
Parameters:: display: Display - display in which control will be created
: class: String or 2.14 Config - existing classname (see ctrlCreate/classnames) of the new control; 1.70 it is possible to use classes defined in mission config
: idc: Number - IDC of the new control. Use -1 if not needed
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Be careful when setting the IDC to -1 if the GUI also contains a CT_LISTNBOX since idcLeft and idcRight by default have idc = -1;.
: controlsGroup: Control - (Optional, default controlNull) creates controls in existing controls group
Return Value:: Control

Examples

Example 1:: _display ctrlCreate ["RscText", 1234];
Example 2:: _map = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscMapControl", -1]; _multiLineText = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscTextMulti", -1]; _multiLineEdit = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscEditMulti", -1];
Example 3:: myControl = findDisplay 0 ctrlCreate ["RscText", 1234, findDisplay 0 displayCtrl 2300];
Example 4:: Create Tree View control with search. Available RscTreeSearch class is hardcoded to be used with RscEdit with idc 645. Example below demonstrates how to. After tree is generated, try typing something in the top box.
0 spawn { disableSerialization; _display = (if (is3DEN) then {findDisplay 313} else {[] call BIS_fnc_displayMission}) createDisplay "RscDisplayEmpty"; _edit = _display ctrlCreate ["RscEdit", 645]; _edit ctrlSetPosition [0,0,1,0.04]; _edit ctrlSetBackgroundColor [0,0,0,1]; _edit ctrlCommit 0; _tv = _display ctrlCreate ["RscTreeSearch", -1]; _tv ctrlSetFont "EtelkaMonospacePro"; _tv ctrlSetFontHeight 0.03; _tv ctrlSetPosition [0,0.06,1,0.94]; _tv ctrlSetBackgroundColor [0,0,0,1]; _tv ctrlCommit 0; _classes = "true" configClasses (configFile >> "CfgVehicles"); for "_i" from 0 to 5 do { _tv tvAdd [[], configName selectRandom _classes]; for "_j" from 0 to 5 do { _tv tvAdd [[_i], configName selectRandom _classes]; for "_k" from 0 to 5 do { _tv tvAdd [[_i, _j], configName selectRandom _classes]; for "_n" from 0 to 5 do { _tv tvAdd [[_i, _j, _k], configName selectRandom _classes]; }; }; }; }; };
Example 5:: Create a simple submit edit box and show content in hint:
disableSerialization; private _display = findDisplay 46 createDisplay "RscDisplayEmpty"; private _ctrlGroup = _display ctrlCreate ["RscControlsGroupNoScrollbars", -1]; private _ctrlBackground = _display ctrlCreate ["RscTextMulti", -1, _ctrlGroup]; IDD_EDIT_BOX = 123; private _ctrlEdit = _display ctrlCreate ["RscEditMulti", IDD_EDIT_BOX, _ctrlGroup]; private _ctrlButton = _display ctrlCreate ["RscShortcutButton", -1, _ctrlGroup]; _ctrlGroup ctrlSetPosition [0.5, 0.5, 0, 0]; _ctrlGroup ctrlCommit 0; _ctrlBackground ctrlSetPosition [0, 0, 0.5, 0.5]; _ctrlBackground ctrlSetBackgroundColor [0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.9]; _ctrlBackground ctrlSetText "ENTER TEXT:"; _ctrlBackground ctrlEnable false; _ctrlBackground ctrlCommit 0; _ctrlEdit ctrlSetPosition [0.01, 0.05, 0.48, 0.34]; _ctrlEdit ctrlSetBackgroundColor [0, 0, 0, 0.5]; _ctrlEdit ctrlCommit 0; _ctrlButton ctrlSetPosition [0.185, 0.42, 0.13, 0.05]; _ctrlButton ctrlCommit 0; _ctrlButton ctrlSetText "SUBMIT"; _ctrlButton ctrlAddEventHandler ["ButtonClick", { params ["_ctrl"]; _display = ctrlParent _ctrl; _text = ctrlText (_display displayCtrl IDD_EDIT_BOX); if (_text == "") then { _text = "EMPTY" }; hint _text; _display closeDisplay 1; }]; ctrlSetFocus _ctrlEdit; _ctrlGroup ctrlSetPosition [0.25, 0.25, 0.5, 0.5]; _ctrlGroup ctrlCommit 0.1; playSound "Hint3";
Example 6:: // since Arma 3 v2.14 findDisplay 46 createDisplay "RscDisplayEmpty" ctrlCreate [configFile >> "RscDisplayBootcampMsgBox" >> "controls" >> "BootcampMessageBox", -1];

Additional Information

See also:: ctrlMapSetPosition allControls allDisplays controlsGroupCtrl ctrlDelete ctrlModel ctrlSetModel ctrlPosition ctrlSetPosition ctrlClassName ctrlModelScale ctrlSetModelScale ctrlModelDirAndUp ctrlSetModelDirAndUp displayParent

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