Screen.GetProperties

table Screen.GetProperties (

)

Example 1

tScreenProperties = Screen.GetProperties();

Gets the properties from the current screen and stores them in table "tScreenProperties".

Example 2

-- Initialize nButtons to zero
nButtons = 0;

-- Get the screen properties
tProps = Screen.GetProperties();

-- Traverse through the table, looking for buttons.
-- When one is found, add one to nButtons
for nIndex, Data in pairs(tProps.Controls) do
    if Data.Type == 1 then
        -- Item is a button
        nButtons = nButtons + 1;
    end
end

-- Output the button count to the user
Dialog.Message("Button Count", "There are " .. nButtons .. " buttons on this screen.");

Retrieves the properties from the current screen, stores them in table "tProps", and counts the number of buttons on the current screen. The result is displayed to the user as a message dialog.