Edit.readonly | LuaRT free and open source Windows programming framework for Lua

Edit.readonly read/write property

Get or set the the readonly mode of the Edit. A true value, indicate that the user cannot enter any new text content.

Example


local ui = require "ui"

-- create a console like window
local win = ui.Window("Edit.readonly sample", "fixed", 580, 360)
local label = ui.Label(win, "Enter command : ", 2, 6)
label.height = 16
local entry = ui.Entry(win, "", label.width+2, 4, win.width-label.width-2, 20)
local edit = ui.Edit(win, "", -1, entry.height+6, win.width+4, win.height-entry.height-4)

edit.font = "Consolas"
edit.fontsize = 8
edit.fontstyle = { bold = true }
edit.fgcolor = 0xA0A0A0
edit.bgcolor = 0
edit.readonly = true
edit.wordwrap = true

local pipe = sys.Pipe("cmd.exe /k chcp 65001>nul")
sleep(100)

function win:onShow()
    edit:append(await(pipe:read()))
end

function entry:onSelect()
  local cmd = self.text.."\n" 
  -- write command to pipe
  pipe:write(cmd)
  -- wait for command to execute
  sleep(150)
  edit:append(cmd)
  -- print pipe output excluding last written command
  edit.selection.from = edit.selection.from - 1
  edit.selection.text = await(pipe:read()):gsub("^"..self.text, "")
  self.text = ""
end

ui.run(win):wait()