Description

Gets the string of an item in the list box user control specified by userControlID. If an invalid index is specified, the command will fail.

Functional area

User Window

Command syntax

Syntax

getListBoxItem userControlID itemIndex

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Comments
`index`	int	yes	Index of the list box item to get.
`userControlId`	int	yes	ID of user control to operate on.

Flags

None

Return value

string

Examples

// Get the string of an item in the List Box User Control
int $windowId;
int $controlId; 
int $i, $numItems;
string $itemStr;
 
// First create a User Window to place the Control on
$windowId = `createWindow "MyWindow"`; 
// Create the User Control on the Window. 
$controlId = `createListBox $windowId`;
// Add some items to the List Box.
addListBoxItem $controlId "Item 1";
addListBoxItem $controlId "Item 2";
addListBoxItem $controlId "Item 3";
 
// Get the number of items.
$numItems = `getNumListBoxItems $controlId`;
 
// Iterate through the list of items.
for( $i = 0; 
     $i < $numItems; 
     $i += 1 )
 { 
   $itemStr = `getListBoxItem $controlId $i`; 
   print $itemStr;
 }

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