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ESL Documentation

Item Inquiry Built-in Function

Return the text associated with an item.

text of item ITEM_NAME [from AB_NAME] in REGION_NAME

ITEM_NAME

The identifier for an item.

from AB_NAME

The identifier for an action bar template. The action bar name must be specified if more than one template contains an item of the given name. It cannot be specified if the item was defined outside of an action bar template.

REGION_NAME

The identifier for a region containing the item.

Description

The value returned is the text associated with the specified item.

Example

 

response to item ItemClass_CL

 copy ancestry to Parent_SV

 copy text of item object in Parent_SV to TextOfLastItemSelected_SV

See Also

text Drawing Statement