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== $did ==

You can get the settings and values of controls in a dialog by using the $did() dialog id identifier with the following formats and properties as appropriate to the control to which you are referring.<br>
$did(name,id)<br>
$did(name,id,N)<br>
If used in the on dialog event, name is optional.

The following $did() properties are supported:

 text	 returns line or Nth line '''$did(id) is same as $did(id).text'''
 len	 returns length of line or length of Nth line
 lines	 returns number of lines
 sel	 returns Line Number of Nth selected line if N is 0, returns number of selected lines
 seltext	 returns selected text in an editbox or first selected item in a listbox
 selstart returns select start character in editbox line
 selend	 returns select end character in editbox line
 edited	 returns $true if text in editbox was changed
 state	 returns 0 = off, 1 = on, and 2 = indeterminate
 next	 returns id of next control in tab key order
 prev	 returns id of previous control in tab key order
 visible	 returns $true if the control is visible, otherwise $false
 enabled	 returns $true if the control is enabled, otherwise $false
 isid	 returns $true if id exists in the dialog, otherwise $false
 csel	 returns line number of Nth checked box in a listcb control if N is 0, returns number of checked lines
 cstate	 returns 0 = off, 1 = on for item in a listcb control

You can access the edit control in a combobox by using 0 as the N value.

[[Category:Dialogs]]