Enumeration Question

mr_moon

I am trying to write some code that clears all the text in a TextEdit node. So far I have:

func _on_button_pressed() -> void: $TextEdit.text = ""

It works, however, I noticed that the TextEdit class has an enumeration called:

MENU_CLEAR = 3 Erases the whole TextEdit text.

How do I call this enumeration to clear the text?

SIsilicon28

Enumerators are nothing more than data, just like any other constants, so you can't "call" them. After doing a little bit of digging in the Godot docs, I've found that those MenuItems enumerators are used in the menu_option method of TextEdit. The method's description is a little vague, but I assume it triggers the menu item's execution.

mr_moon

Are these constants arguments to pass into the menu_option method?

SIsilicon28

Correct. :)

mr_moon

Thanks SIsilicon28. I got it working with this:

func _on_Clear_pressed() -> void: $TextEdit.menu_option(4) # select all text using enum MENU_SELECT_ALL = 4 $TextEdit.menu_option(3) # clear all text using enum MENU_CLEAR = 3

SIsilicon28

You can make it more readable by directly using the enumerators instead of the numbers they represent.

$TextEdit.menu_option(TextEdit.MENU_SELECT_ALL)