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system.gui deprecated

These functions have been replaced by other functions and exist only for backwards compatibility. See each function below for details.

📄️ chooseColor

Prompts the user to pick a color using the default color-chooser dialog box.

📄️ closeDesktop

Allows you to close any of the open desktops associated with the current client.

📄️ color

Creates a new color object, either by parsing a string or by having the RGB[A] channels specified explicitly.

📄️ confirm

Displays a confirmation dialog box to the user with Yes and No options, and a custom message.

📄️ convertPointToScreen

Converts a pair of coordinates that are relative to the upper-left corner of a component to be relative to the upper-left corner of the entire screen.

📄️ createPopupMenu

Creates a new popup menu, which can then be shown over a component on a mouse event.

📄️ desktop

Allows for invoking system.gui functions on a specific desktop.

📄️ errorBox

Displays an error-style message box to the user.

📄️ findWindow

Finds and returns a list of windows with the given path.

📄️ getCurrentDesktop

Returns the handle of the desktop this function was called from.

📄️ getScreenIndex

Returns an integer value representing the current screen index based on the screen from which this function was called.

📄️ getDesktopHandles

Gets a list of all secondary handles of the open desktops associated with the current client.

📄️ getOpenedWindowNames

Finds all of the currently open windows and returns a tuple of their paths.

📄️ getOpenedWindows

Finds all of the currently open windows and returns a tuple of references to them.

📄️ getParentWindow

Finds the parent (enclosing) window for the component that fired an event and returns a reference to it.

📄️ getQuality

Returns the data quality for the property of the given component as an integer.

📄️ getScreens

Get a list of all the monitors on the computer this client is open on.

📄️ getSibling

Given a component event object, looks up a sibling component.

📄️ getWindow

Finds a reference to an open window with the given name.

📄️ getWindowNames

Returns a list of the paths of all windows in the current project, sorted alphabetically.

📄️ inputBox

Opens up a popup input dialog box.

📄️ isTouchscreenModeEnabled

Checks whether or not the running Client's Touch Screen mode is currently enabled.

📄️ messageBox

Displays an informational-style message popup box to the user.

📄️ moveComponent

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📄️ openDesktop

Creates an additional Desktop in a new frame.

📄️ openDiagnostics

Opens the client runtime diagnostics window, which provides information regarding performance, logging, active threads, connection status, and the console.